HEAR ME!?”


    were other people at stake. A small part of him recalled how to be considerate of others, if minuscule.


    Baba…?” came a weak reply.


    Not yet. “Come, we have to move this stone off of them.”


    PUSH!” Joscur roared. A blood vessel in his left eye had popped from the strain!


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    Please wake up!” Joscur pleaded, patting his son’s icy cheek desperately. Daniellex was speaking again, placing a hand on his friend’s shoulder.


    I killed baby!!”


    now, of all times, more than ever!


    OOOOOOOOOOUT!” William howled with such vitriol as he spun around to address each and every one of the individuals hooked up to their machina that they all stopped what they were doing and looked first at him, then to the other council members.


    nothing but listen,” he said, raising his blade and pointing it at them as he stalked in front of them. The six of them chose to say nothing and listen.


    fucking idea what it is you’ve meddled with! And you know what the scary part is? Neither do I! Not completely! You have no fucking idea how terrifying that is and I am not going to explain it to you. We’re going to go over everything we know about these oleum right here, right now, and set the record as straight as it can be! Then, and only then, am I going to give you people a choice on how we handle this! Because this… this is bigger than anything you’ve ever been concerned about. Bigger than some war on a continent half a world away!


    specific locations. A coordinated attack, but he didn’t attack this tower. Probably because of the oleum underneath it. They were reaching out to him! Calling to one another! Searching...”


    have to understand a thing,” William interrupted harshly. “You just need to answer my questions! Oleum One came from the Black Isle, that’s all you need to understand.”


    fanatics or some such nonsense. Nothing I’ve ever heard suggests that something like Oleum One could have possibly -”


    not withholding information from you,” William aggressively corrected, slumping his back against the central seat and sliding down to the floor. “I’m telling you that you can’t comprehend the full picture, and am giving you what I know you can.”


    That’s the sort of thing you’ve unintentionally gotten mixed up in. That’s the forces you’re dealing with, Mr. Wink, Lucifer, and I… and these oleum are a far greater threat than any of you know because of what they did to Lucifer.”


    make you choose the other. I’m a representation of choice itself.”


    needed to know, because these things are new… and this time he paid for his curiosity.”


    Not like you are. So whatever that stuff is, it’s more dangerous than anything you’ve ever encountered in ways that you can’t possibly fathom.”


    Of course Cornello wouldn’t be there,’ were his last thoughts before slumber overtook him.