§2Why have you come here, disturbing my slumber?

§6You know very well why I’m here.

§2I do not.

§6You overestimate my patience, wyrm.

§2No, please, tell me why a being of your status would come before me on this day of nothing.

§6You allowed a group of low-lifes to enter the mountain. They discovered the existence of Nothing. 

§2That, I am aware.

§6Why would you allow them to do so?

§2Why would I prevent them from doing so?

§6You know very well why. Has your age affected your memory? Do you not recall the fate of Avsohm?

§2I remember you cast that monstrosity upon them. That abhorrent being which left holes across my realm, swallowed my people into Nothing. 

§6And you know why that had to happen. 

§2Because you are afraid, afraid of the prospect that you might lose that precious crown. 

§6You believe me to act selfishly. 

§2You do.

§6My serpentine friend, you are the selfish one. You are the one allowing your people to suffer in this dying world, why do you let them suffer further?

§2We’ve had this discussion before. My mind will not change, and neither will yours. 

§6Very well. But do not think this 'accident' will be forgotten. 

§2And what are you to do? Cast your blade into my torso, tear me from existence scale by scale? Or are you to collapse my world and bring about your so-called day of reckoning? 

§6You are in over your head, snake. I believed you wise enough to know not to mock me. 

§2It matters not, I am aware of my impending demise. It is surely inevitable.

§6Enough. 

§2You truly strike fear into my soul.

§6I said that’s enough.

§2Very well. 

§6Your tone offends me. You act as if you are a step ahead, but that is not true. There is no destiny. There is only a need, a function, a necessary evil. It will come to pass no matter what you do. Your realm, your people, are just another point in time. Another stepping stone, another inconvenience. You are not special. You are nothing.

§2Can we not reach a compromise?

§6I do not deal in compromises.

§2I do not wish for my people to simply vanish into Nothing.

§6No object, no soul, no realm ever vanishes into Nothing. It is reused, recycled, reborn. It is before my Court where I decide its path in this endless web of fates. 

§2You are a liar. You took Tethlaen, twisted and abused him as if he were simply a tool. Lured him to the North with that very same mountain under the guise of a mystical disturbance, not a trap. I do not wish that fate upon my Drehmari. 

§6Oh, but you fail to see, Drehmal - Tethlaen was of great use to me. What better way to protect one's existence than rewriting the definition of fear itself to revolve around me, the unknown, the unthinkable, the unfathomable, the nothing?

§2You truly are a sickening creature. One day you shall be stopped, and your crown taken as it should have been long ago. When you come to slay me like the valiant knight you believe yourself to be, my dying wish shall be exactly that. May you consider it.

§6If only you could imagine the number of times I have been told that by every soul in existence. Alas, you cannot, as you are nothing but a simple-minded snake.

§2Begone from this place. Leave me to my rest, §kMythbreaker. 

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§6As for you, punishment has not yet come. Your souls are inexplicably bound to Drehmal’s realm, thus it will have to wait... nevertheless, when I arrive to bring about what you see as an apocalypse, pain and suffering will be inflicted upon your feeble, mundane body.

§6I hope you look forward to that day as I do.
