"I have consumed, and grown stronger. That it can understand the concept of our weapons at all is proof of chance. Go back, and tell them I need time to get this idea to work. Even less so if I can get a few samples from the outlands to let it work on. It understands our weapons, Gii'puit, without anything other than a very fragmented description. Like you being told the most basic of understandings about a crystalline's shell, and understanding how the core's basic functions work.<br/><br/>But back to the other proof me going hard, you are wrong. That one is dead, floating energy nothing more. It is fragments of energy, meant only for strengthening the survivors. Can you be allied with Yr'typ, destroyed during the last of THEIR incursions? THEY shredded it, tore it apart, and left nothing but bits of its core floating before THEY withdrew. The elders absorbed those fragments, I watched them, Gi'puit, so why should I not do the same? I and this host are more powerful because of it, and its understanding of balefire, the basic principle of all our weapons, grew further. It can make a small galaxy of balefire around it, so thin it doesn't show or can be sensed, letting the opponent entangle itself, before surging power into it, shredding them. It can work on THEM, Gi'puit, I know it can, if only to slow them down and let us try more things on THEM during THEIR next incursion. Give me TIME, Gi'puit."<br/><br/>Draiss felt himself grinning, even as he wondered how the Beyonder knew about his theoretical use of balefire, and even more so how it knew it would work. He accidentally made a single strand two nights ago as it had described, and then sliced his hand off when he had brushed up against it. He had been trying to think of a way to use it, but that description gave him more ideas on using it. He shuddered, as he felt a more detailed understanding of balefire coming to him, before choking on blood and losing the information, and felt himself laughing. "Poor little insect, it can't even take a more detailed explanation without hurting itself. But Gi'puit..."<br/><br/>He stepped forward, and grinned wider, fangs flashing. "You are here, and I am hungry still. Do you really want to challenge me, right here, right now? Those insects are watching, and babbling in terror at what they are seeing. Shall we give them a real scare, as I pull you from your host, and consume you? I would rather not, even with this 'hunger' as the insects call it, but I will if you will not go back and tell them what I need. I was sent here because I could find a permanent solution. I am working on it, but need at least five cycles to do it, and without I'elen interfering. I... can... do it. Five cycles, I will have a new weapon. Ten cycles, I will have a new defense. Twenty cycles, and we can push THEM back. I just... need... TIME."