Corrine merely stood and watched, she had seen this before, for herself, she rarely sought to get involved… indeed, these sorts of meetings had rarely seen her in attendance and this one was only by the purest chance as her communion with Itzpaplotl had impressed upon her that the eve of war was at hand, had she not, then Damien could well have stood stoically facing the wall for many more days.<br/><br/>The glittering blue eyes of the automaton fell upon hers… Elohim, the cold reasoning of her impassioned mind seemed to captivate Corrine as she tried to reach into the darklight that hummed around her, she could taste the empty oblivion and against the maelstrom that took her own mind it was a taste to savour.<br/><br/>She felt the crackling stream around her arm as it sparked against her body, casting its flickered tendrils of shadow across her face…“I have memories… dark memories of the wars waged before in ‘her’ name in ancient times.  Her warriors were fierce and unforgiving; they would carve a path in order to cut the head and the heart from the ‘snake’ of their enemies and that is how we must be, the mortals will melt from us, those that will stand against us will do so foolishly and their souls cast into the life stream…”  Corrine shifted softly against the touch of her own thoughts, feeling the coursing stream of the planet as it pulsed through her, the agony and memories of each of those sundered souls clawing at her…<br/><br/>“I have seen it in my dreams, in the fleeting peace I am afforded in my chambers; the ancient has shown me the end of all things.  I see them… each and every one of the Hellfire’s staked and stretched against the sacrificial stone, their still beating hearts torn from within and held up high as an offering to burning skies, whilst the temple steps run with a waterfall of blood.”  Her voice was tinged with an almost distant edge as her eyes fixed against the sapphire orbs of the mechanical… she found peace in focusing on her and recognised the worth of her stance… “I seek more worthy souls… my hunger craves it, but… should you wish to follow this endeavor against the weak mortals I shall accompany you…” she glanced across to the rest of the assembled Brood, a flicker of flame surged in her eyes as she drew her mind back…<br/>