I look at the weirdly young looking man as he talks with the group leading us somewhere. I glance over at entropy and I active the helm of screams.
"What do you make of him?"
She shows no reaction to a voice in her head.
"Highly mentally unstable and quite powerful. If need be I will eliminate him"
hm he does seem a bit... off. Not the most mentally stable. Closest person I can compare him to from what ive seen, is sunny at wind flower, then island. So he's probably died countless times. Entropy responds to something said, i didn't care to listen to them recapping everything
"your clan would have fallen either way unfortunately. It is not out of weakness, but both the king of swords and queen of worms had plans in place to raid both of them far before mordret came into the picture. He was just the tool used."
Nightwalker glances back, he's not even trying to hide it. He is in fact looking at entropys chest. I summon velvet cloak and I put it over her.
"So my house was really always going to fall?"
She nods
"and the government with it. The clan is both lucky and very unlucky it was mordret who was used. If he wasn't used, then more saints would have survived, but the awakened and ascended ranks would have been massively culled. Neave and bloodwave would have died in that case"
the two tense at their names
"how do you know that?"
She lifts her veil. The whites of her eyes are completely black
"I am quite the powerful seer. And you should know to not question one"
Soon the group gets back to talking. Hm, that does tell me more of entropys powers. It seems her divination powers don't work like cassies do, or did. Their clearly stronger, being able to see what could have happened. Explains why she knew what my actual act of defiance would have been. Something against the dreamspawn, and something at a high cost. I active the helm of screams yet again.
"Solution to the current problem of the controlled immortals?"
I can feel her gaze shift to me
"yes. Please come up with a speech to say to the Immortals. Something that could help them fight against the control of their bodies."
I'm not sure if that's possible but...
"worth a shot"
we get to a building and we are shown inside. Its a small place. Reminds me a little of my little hovel inside of the dark city. Its.... a sickly sweet memory.
"Sorry... I don't think I have any food or beverages to offer you. I don't actually remember the last time I ate something."
I hum.
"Thats sad."
I dig into my bag and I hand him one of the prepared meals I have kept in it.
"Oh. Thanks did you make it"
i hear sunny snicker
"let's hope they didn't"
The group talks about.... they refuse to say the name of the dreamspawn, at entropys slightly threatening insistence, the dreamspawns powers. I already know most of the basics thanks to entropy. Still
"After all, he was a strantiger. Someone from outside the bounds of the world we were familiar with. Those Path of Ascension zealots had always been a weird bunch, and nobody knew what happened to them in the Dream Realm. So, it was difficult not to feel distrustful of that kid... that's how others felt, at least. Personally, I didn't care too much."
He clearly has a incredibly powerful aspect. I nod
"that makes sense, it can't blame you for trying to look past it. He was powerful, and you clearly spent a while in the dream realm yourself"
he nods looking away
"yeah still, Perhaps I should have."
I glance at entropy. I then sigh
"i was informed my mordret that the dreamspawn can take on parts of other divine lineages. I will take a guess, he betrayed you to take storms lineage?"
He studies me for a while
"oh so your... close to that guy"
I shrug it guess a little. Its more so that he's sure I'm not going to try to kill him, and he seems fond enough of me. That's not a good thing as he's more then a little annoying.
"That begs the question, what does he get out of the divine lineages?"
Nightwalker shrugs
"no clue. Who wouldn't want to know why someone killed them"
After a while i find myself outside with jet and sunny.
"Nightwalker... I can't believe he's still alive."
I personally, well i don't really care. He's a crazy, deadbeat, womanizer from what ive seen. I don't get people like that, why always think about sex.
"Yeah. It's like meeting one of your childhood heroes, who supposedly died decades ago. Only the hero is perfectly alive and looks younger than you... and you're the one who's dead instead."
I glance over
"you're next to two other dead people jet. Its weird to keep making I'm dead jokes"
she looks over at me and smiles
"maybe you should just make more I'm dead jokes, you know just because"
eh... maybe. It was a very much traumatic event.
"What do you think?"
Jet turns her head to sunny
"i think you are right. Returning from this expedition with Nightwalker will be a great boon - he has become even more outstanding than he used to be, it seems, and he used to be legendary."
Her face takes on a slightly less calm look. Like that of someone assessing a potential problem.
"I am not entirely sure that we can trust him, though."
I nod
"yeah. He seems more then a little crazy. And a insane saint is a even bigger problem."
Later I sit at the runes room. Or whatever. The place where you control the ship.
"W—what... what the hell is this?"
Oh look!
"That would be our armies"
Nightwalker gets a look of slight dread. Like he just now figured out the fact that me and sunny are actually very big threats.
"Yeah that's quite the power you two have. Very similar too. Are you sure you aren't related?"
Sunny seems to get bothered
"of course not. Their far too bad at cooking to be related to me"
I shrug
"not blood related. But in spirit, that idiot is like a younger brother."
Sunny gets a offended look
"your the one who fought a great titan as a saint"
Nightwalker coughs. It really is funny to do that. Two bridges form, one out of ice the other from shadows. My army marches their weapons on the ready. Sunnys shambles over. The massive moth lands on top of the ship
"I guess... you two really are beings of the same caliber as the Serpent King."
Sunny gets a mischievous look in his eyes and he responds trying to sound casual
"Oh, I am. Actually, I killed the Serpent King once. He's here somewhere, by the way, among my shadows..."
I lean over and I elbow him
"how about you call him over"
sunny is clearly trying really hard not to grin. Nightwalker seems to accept the fact he's around two crazy people.
"And this moth is here because it's very helpful. No doubt about it."
Two hands grab sunnys shoulders. Sunny almost jumps looking back at spider queen.
"Oh dear. Did I startle you?"
Her outfit changed to the one she had on during her time in the great mirror, or so I've been told.
"Oh. Oh you've got quite the set of echos."
I slowly look at nightwalker. Whore.
"Oh? And who is this darling?"
She steps farther into the room looking at nightwalker. Who's now looking at her lower half.
"Focus on the road old man"
he doesn't even have the sense to get embarrassed.
"You have a minute!"
I nod. After a second there's a flash of heat and with a massive boom the bridge is cut in half. Theres some ash in the air. The bridge is burned each time it tries to regenerate.
"Oh my, it certainly got hot in here."
Soon enough I am proved correct in the idea this is a mad man.
"Grab something!"
I dont in fact grab something. I don't need to. I'm very used to bumpy rides. The ship is slammed into a close by island almost making sunny and Aether fall right off the side. I barely even move
"bold maneuver"
"...bastard!"
Sunny seems pretty unhappy at nightwalker. I get it.
"You lunatic!"
Nightwalker starts laughing really hard
"oh come on sovereign heat seeker doesn't seem to mind"
"their a bad example!"
Aether seems more then a little pale. Soon we collide with another island. Mad man. That's really we have here.