Jonothan smiled as Yurei came up out of the shadows, still garbed in their essence. As she accused him of being a demon and slaver. He shook his head. “Me? Why would I want a slave? You have to feed them, cloth them, give them instructions, discipline them, make sure they get medical attention when sick or injured. No, I'm no slaver. But if you want to see slavers....”<br/><br/>The scene shifted and they were in a village the snow was still falling, coating everything in sight. As they watched, a wagon with a few small children in it approached and stopped as several men flitted from the shadows into reality. Suddenly screams of fear, pain, and anguish pierced the night. It was over quickly as a girl was dragged out of her home clutching a doll to her chest as they tried to get it from her.<br/><br/>The scene shifted to show Happy Mountain. A woman and child offering their respects to the recently departed loved one. Shadows moved through up on the pair of them. The interplay between the characters involved seemed as if real, but if anyone were touch anyone involved their hands or limbs went through everything as if a ghost.<br/><br/>Jonothan turned to each woman in turn and said, “Slaver? Those men are slavers. Murdering people so they can further their own agenda and bolster their numbers.”<br/><br/>“As far as being a demon, I can show you a demon.”<br/><br/>With that the scene shifted to downtown New York as they watched a group of men savagely assault a woman. Repeatedly raping her until she died from their attentions. The scene shifted once more to the jungles of Nigeria. It was a medical facility. Injured people were having their wounds tended to by two nurses and a doctor. Soldiers burst into the facility and began to shoot the men, dragging the women out of the building to be raped before either being shot or having their throats slit. Meanwhile the Doctor was forced to his knees only to have his head cut off with a machete.<br/><br/>Scene after scene of humanity committing atrocity after atrocity upon one another. And it wasn't just the depredations of man but also women. Sometimes what the women did was just as unspeakable and more so than anything a man could commit. A woman drowning her children for instance.<br/><br/>“Why does mankind need demons when they breed their own?” asked Jonothan as he walked brazenly past each of them, causing the scene to shift once again. This time to show a much more personal scene for Yurei.<br/><br/>She was surrounded by several Masters of the Clan to witness her cloaking herself in the void of her own shadowcraft. They watched as her shadow shifted and lifted from the ground, coiling around her feet and slowly moving upward and as it passed her chest and covered her shoulders, Yurei's head fell back as she screamed. Out of terror, out of regret at having her humanity violated by such a creature, or some manner of rage.... no one but Yurei would be able to tell.<br/><br/>“Mankind was never meant to control the creatures of the void. But power you command is the weakest of the void as it is a reflection of ourselves.”<br/><br/>The scene shifted once more to show a Master come into Chunyang's room and escorted her to a room with twenty others, cold bracelets placed around her wrists, canceling her powers before they took cold evil delight in destroying not only her virtue but making it near impossible for her to ever truly enjoy sex as it was meant to be enjoyed. As they raped her over and over and over until none of them could get their ardor up.<br/><br/>“We get our power as much from the baser instincts of man as the higher ones.” said Jonothan as he moved the scene to a hospital room where a woman screamed in pain before suddenly there was a swat and the nurse informing the woman that it was a little girl. The doctor inspected the baby carefully before swaddling it and carefully handing it over to the mother with the father at her shoulder on the other side of the chair. The expression of the parents said it all.<br/><br/>The scene shifted once more to see a man standing in a three piece rental tux, a Catholic priest stood before him as they both turned as the music shifted to that of the traditional 'Here Comes the Bride', and a woman dressed in white, the veil covering her face as she approached at a slow and stately pace, the world disappeared for the man as his gaze focused entirely upon the woman approaching. As she finally arrived on the arm of her father, the man gently took her hand as the father pulled the veil up over her head. The way the two looked into each other's eyes was just as potent and beautiful as the parents viewing their child for the first time.<br/><br/>The scene shifted once more back to the Egyptian room as he sat down, he looked up at them and said, “We gain more power from those higher emotions than the baser ones, but the fact that the baser emotions seem to be much more prevalent has more to do with the condition of humanity than any force we exert.”