“You have given me a weapon to destroy you.”
Thrum.
Skallagrim erupted with a hiss-filled laughter as his voice scaled along a thousand radio frequencies at once. As he did so, the galdhr monomolecular mesh flickered and condensed tighter and thinner, recoiling back from Fury.
“You have trained him well, this pet of yours. What other tricks does he know?” Skallagrim asked earnestly as he paced a few times, his amethyst gaze never leaving Fury. “Answer me, does he know, Azakanealina’Kaelin. Does he know? Is he aware of the truth?”
Skallagrim stopped pacing and squared up, facing the man known as Fury, the induction fields slowly altering the world around them. Minute. Subtle changes. Perhaps Fury would notice it, perhaps not. Those in the ships far above them did. The world had slowed a full second. The electromagnetic field that protected the world from the harsh cosmic rays, as well as the deadly radiation from the sun, faltered a moment.
“We watched in the shadows, watched as you reached every stage of civilization. Marveled at the sophistication and beauty that enveloped your species. When you ascended we came as friends, welcomed you.”
Raising his warsword, pointing the pulsating, glowing mass of gamma energy, Skallagrim spoke solemnly, “We tried to warn you. Told you that you were not gods. In return, you mocked and decried us as fossils. Ignorant of what we knew you dismissed us as easily as you dismissed your creations.” The ground around Skallagrim roiled with the elastic energy of an earthquake, contained as the energy focused upward into the being who stood in the epicenter.
A moment's pause, as the war sword tapped the ground beneath the Dreamer, a world appeared, followed by another and another until the solar system that contained Antire, the homeworld of the being known as Fury came into existance. “Does he know why we destroyed his world? That billions of people died, only to be housed our dreams, because of your hubris and arrogance?”
Skallagrim cracked his neck slightly, as he did so the monomolecular mesh flickered briefly as energy surged through it again. Tendrils of galdhr dove deep into the earth, boring for the center of the world, seeking the core.
“Why do you want me to destroy the last of your creations? What purpose does it serve?”