<span style="color: #a64dff">"You don't know me or what I've been trained to do. You can look at my body and get an idea of what it is can do, but I know exactly what I can do. I know how much weight I can pull before I dislocate a joint. How how I can be hit before something breaks. You call yourself Order? Why? What's orderly about you? About us? I know for the fact it's not the cracks in our souls or the depths of the cuts. So where's the order?"</span><br/><br/>"I am Ras, but I don't... how I be in my own mind? How I be a memory if I have my own memories?" He frowned and looked at Susan. "What you mean by dat? Shouldn't I be there, with my family? Instead I've been alone for... I don't even know how long."<br/><br/>The'kal remained silent as she stared at the crystal and walked around the image a few times.<span style="color: #666600">"What it is doesn't matter. It..." </span>She paused and folded her arms.<span style="color: #666600">"Show me the Troll." </span>When Elune did she started shaking her head.<span style="color: #666600">"That's not your Ras. It is <b>A</b> Ras but not-. How do I put this."</span>The'kal shrugged and looked back at Elune.<span style="color: #666600"> "Simply put, that shard is a fragment of raw power. I don't know why it's there or how it got there, they exist in the physical plane not in our minds. But would explain Ras' affinity for magic, teleportation and conjuration, without being a mage. Think a soul shard, but instead of a soul it's crystallized power. A fragment or your or I. It's entirely possible that I made the fragment when I recreated him and it's just been... I dunno, leeching magic from those around him. Maybe it's been supercharged from his exposure to you, Eldryn, Order, and whoever else has interacted with him? Time is being bent somewhere, I'm going to assume this Ras is a future Ras or maybe the current one. It's entirely possible that his mind is just being corrupted by it." </span><span style="color: #0000ff">"And can you remove it?"</span><span style="color: #666600">"Nope. I don't trust myself to deal with matters that delicate. But that's what Elune is for, I trust you can empower Susan to make it safe for her to remove it? I've already altered her body, she can contain the power safely, she just hasn't grown into it yet."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>