Draiss glared at the fragment, feeling V'elen's annoyance as well as his own. "So I can get your help. I have agreed to assist your kind against THEM, but they have promised nothing other than a reduction of new attacks. Nothing more. I have no information on THEM other than what V'elen has given me, and that is not enough to do anything with it. I don't want a beyonder slave, that is like a mortal trying to enslave a god. It won't work, it will get you destroyed, and even if, against all odds, logic, and intelligence, it somehow works, it won't be pretty. I need help, more points of view, especially if your kind is to survive against something that is to you what you are to a normal human."<br/><br/>He shuddered suddenly, as V'elen took control back. "It is energy, nothing more. If you are too delusional to realize you are dying, I am not going to let you wander around until the other one finds you. I got the idea from the elders, when they consumed several of us destroyed by THEIR last incursion. At the time I didn't understand what they were doing, but when I got here and watched the insects here consuming other insects, I realized that was exactly what the elders did. I am not stooping, everyone else is being held back by the elders. I am not going to die here, and the more power one has, the harder it is for the host to be destroyed. As I just proved. Now, you can get the piece of you I took from another host back, as well as PART of the core of another beyonder. If you chose no now, I will consume it all."