Draiss shrugged, before taking another drink, the bruises healing as the women left the room. "What I didn't know was that balefire stops being a magical substance once it is stable, like a star. That is what got through the defenses. But whatever, I learned something interesting while derezzed. The Beyonders are just as scared of us as we are of them. I don't know why, but they are attempting to crush the far realms, and those areas are awash with fear, both internal and external. Don't know why they are trying to destroy them, what they are getting, or why they are so scared, but it is promising. Maybe, for them, we are their Beyonders."<br/><br/>He would spend time with all of them later, though he had to give Amaterasu the most grief since she had been one of the ones that had nearly smacked him, despite him not having gotten her with child. Yet.