The Beyonder towers over him, the size of a great wyrm dragon, its eyes focused intently on him. "Insect." The word seems to reverberate, not produced by sound, but by the echo of energy flowing from the creature.<br/><br/>"Your words are immaterial. I can see what lies within your very essence. You carry our gift, and yet you use it to oppose us. You struggle, but it is a futile effort. We are older than the very existence you seek to protect. You are an anomaly, a defect, a flaw. Nothing more. A problem that must be corrected." n an instant, it seems to vanish, then reappear, directly behind him, now little more than the five-foot radius sphere, the glowing 'eyes', and an odd, eight-sided polygonal shape of the strange, dark crystals that surround it. ""Surrender, and this will end painlessly."