[The creature’s hellish gaze remains solemn and firm as Valerius looks over the other man’s reaction. Lifting his massive body, he pads over from another opalescent Sloth gem and rests himself slowly at Qilby’s feet.] That depends on the subject.

That you and your family’s lives could restart at the end, and go on so easily, combined with so many conflicts...sometimes even repeating the same ones from incarnation to incarnation, in itself would seem like a sort of Hell to me; had I not been trying to understand the workings of other dimensions.

[The large, maned head rests and briefly nuzzles the old man’s leg as it gives a huge sigh, purple claws tapping against stone as he considers his next words. The sounds they make reverberate throughout the space as he looks to the other crystals.]

It all helped me understand your own sins and motivations, in the end. [The wicked scorpion tail coiled around Qilby’s other leg, before effortlessly moving away as the creature stood again. He began to pace around him as he spoke, until he finally leaned on one side of the chair and reformed to his preferred humanoid shape. Leaning over the Eliatrope for an embrace, he finally murmured after a kiss to his forehead]


Despite what my other half may think...I believe you were in the right to try and break that cycle, before it corroded you entirely.