Noah finished burying the dead, and THE Creature came to stand beside him without a word.
For a moment neither of them spoke. The graves stretched out across the whole Expanse, thousands upon thousands of small folds in the earth, and the rivers of Infinity ran on between the mountains as if nothing had happened here at all.
Then Noah spoke, slowly, turning the whole thing over aloud.
"An enemy like THE Sealed One is a very frustrating one, and I've had a great many enemies" He looked out over the field of graves.
"Most enemies, you come across them. You fight. One of you dies, the other walks away, and the matter is settled. Clean. Comprehensible. There's a certain...ease and satisfaction to it, even when it's trying to kill you." He shook his head slowly.
"The Sealed One one doesn't do that. This one plays games. He runs. He kills everyone in the room except you, and then he hands you the bill for it and asks how it feels."
His eyes were bright!
