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*Stares at the insects for a moment*
Tch… Bugs.
*Takes in the rest of the sights, turning slowly in a full circle as I do*
Is this what they did?

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It is. As long as we stay down here, they won’t reach us.

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* jumps slightly and I create another circler that I turn like a knob, decreasing the volume*

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I suppose the ultimate question is, why? What motivated this level of destruction?

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*Snickers*
Down down bottom of the sea we’re going mind link exploration danger is down the mind link bottom of the sea may be difficult the bottom of the sea—

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

They’ve been driven into frenzy by this universe. I’d like to know how they got here in the first place.

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*sinks really fast*

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You don't know either, then?

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*Shakes my head*
Everything in this universe is the same as it is when I discovered it.

<Snipped quote by Artifact>

Mm. And is this chaos the reason you became a general? Or something further?

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No, I have a real reason. This planet is a symptom of a much bigger disease.
*Points to the orange planet in the sky, which itself is bounded to several more via the same nebulous material*
It only gets worse from here. And they’re all connected.

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It is bizarre. Is it a someone, or a something?

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*Hits the bottom*
Danger creatures bottom of the sea creatures that rake flesh off of your bones the sea treasure the creatures that bones the water the speaking creatures tear into—
*A horde of shrimplikes surround us from all sides*

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Aww they are cute!

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

Both. These planets here and in the distance aren’t actually planets at all. They’re scales.

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Scales of?…

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It has many names, but I’ll call it the Formless Dragon. You may even recognize a piece of its soul.

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Recognize part of its soul, huh? Couldn’t imagine how I would.

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You fought a small piece of it, there at the end. This creature has been asleep for— forever, as far as I know. But someday it might wake up.