Draiss grinned, and reached up, offering a hand to the inevitable. "Welcome to the circus, Gammon. I am the ringleader, everyone else is an act. Of course, you already knew that. And can I use the book to learn how to counter what the Marilith learned form it? There is no telling what she did learn, and if she learned about, say, how to make stable permanent planar portals to the Chaos entities beyond the outer planes, or something equally unpleasant, that would make things VERY interesting and unorderly for a long while."<br/><br/>He pulled the book from its hiding place, waiting for an answer to his very serious question. If they agreed, he allowed them to select the wording of the question, a natural precaution, as well as had them tell him how to properly use the book. Once that was done, he would then follow their directions, and ask only that one question, though once he had an answer, he couldn't help but think a question at the book, a rather whimsical question, but one rather pertinent to his current predicaments. The thought question was how to combine the chaos sparks in the eight without having to kill those that worked together.