On one hand, there is the Condesce... the embodiment of the decision they made to continue the story of the troll race and the new universe they had hoped would allow for the continuation of their culture, their people, and then encapsulated all of their hopes into one person that had caused the death and destruction of many more cultures and people. She herself was a monster, a demon, and yet for all of her faults she knew that she was also in just as many ways shaping the future that they had so hopefully wished for. While she tried to separate her conscience from the consequences of resetting the scratch, a twinge of fear and dread welled up inside of Aranea.
And then there was the other hand. The terrible, horrible fact that the Condesce was an extension of her closest friend. The one girl that she had fought the closest and trusted the most. The batterwitch's presence meant that for all of her pomp and pride, she may one day choose to become a part of the Condesce's machinations. Oh, she had no doubt that Meenah would grow tired of the subservient role and attempt to usurp the Condesce herself -- they were like two beta fishes swirling in the same bowl, after all. But Aranea was worried that this was one situation in which her friend would not come out unscathed... or even the same person, were the fates deemed her more worthy of life than fallen Empress.
And then still there's what the Condesce meant. From her use of Betty Crocker, she was clearly subservient to her master. Was the chain that still held her in place present? Did that mean that this world was deemed significant enough to face his ire. Aranea didn't know whether or not BREW would be so powerful as to strip away HIS powers, and worried still that even if that was the case he would NOT be in a compromised position for very long. There was a very real possibility that events were now in place which made his appearance here an inevitability, and that the loss of her powers as a Sylph or the fact that her time beyond the furthest ring had not prepared her for this little twist in the story. In other words, for all the dangers that approached, she had no foreknowledge of the events that were about to transpire to know how to handle the situation. For all of her knowledge and optimism, she was completely in the dark now.
She reflected on all these things as she neared the door. Each thought returning back to the one thought that continued to stick in her head: everything about this sucked.]
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On one hand, there is the Condesce... the embodiment of the decision they made to continue the story of the troll race and the new universe they had hoped would allow for the continuation of their culture, their people, and then encapsulated all of their hopes into one person that had caused the death and destruction of many more cultures and people. She herself was a monster, a demon, and yet for all of her faults she knew that she was also in just as many ways shaping the future that they had so hopefully wished for. While she tried to separate her conscience from the consequences of resetting the scratch, a twinge of fear and dread welled up inside of Aranea.
And then there was the other hand. The terrible, horrible fact that the Condesce was an extension of her closest friend. The one girl that she had fought the closest and trusted the most. The batterwitch's presence meant that for all of her pomp and pride, she may one day choose to become a part of the Condesce's machinations. Oh, she had no doubt that Meenah would grow tired of the subservient role and attempt to usurp the Condesce herself -- they were like two beta fishes swirling in the same bowl, after all. But Aranea was worried that this was one situation in which her friend would not come out unscathed... or even the same person, were the fates deemed her more worthy of life than fallen Empress.
And then still there's what the Condesce meant. From her use of Betty Crocker, she was clearly subservient to her master. Was the chain that still held her in place present? Did that mean that this world was deemed significant enough to face his ire. Aranea didn't know whether or not BREW would be so powerful as to strip away HIS powers, and worried still that even if that was the case he would NOT be in a compromised position for very long. There was a very real possibility that events were now in place which made his appearance here an inevitability, and that the loss of her powers as a Sylph or the fact that her time beyond the furthest ring had not prepared her for this little twist in the story. In other words, for all the dangers that approached, she had no foreknowledge of the events that were about to transpire to know how to handle the situation. For all of her knowledge and optimism, she was completely in the dark now.
She reflected on all these things as she neared the door. Each thought returning back to the one thought that continued to stick in her head: everything about this sucked.]