Draiss was giving out lessons, tips, and sharing information about the Beyonders without too much concern for being believed or not, though his personal methods of fighting them were kept quiet, simply pointing out that he was researching new ones as the last one, while it did work, had hurt him a great deal more than it should have. He had more shadow stalkers out in consultation positions, actively advising how to find them, though all of them admitted that their original techniques were obsolete, the Beyonders having altered enough that new ones were being worked out.<br/><br/>The few 'survivors' that Draiss got to before the Inevitables were carefully investigated, and all bore the signs of terminal temporal fragmentation, though he knew the epic wizard working with Verdelet wasn't among the unfortunate ones to experience, likely with careful and extensive contingent memory modification. He kept an eye on the various consorts and companions leading troops, several times having to reprimand Suzuanne and Ulwei that they were NOT armies that could sustain losses, Ulwei's losses through not properly planning exit strategies, which forced the units to self destruct to escape letting the targets know exactly who was investigating them, and Suzuanne's because she would ignore the units to personally close with the nearby abominations. She won, but her losses were not acceptable, a point he made extremely clear to her the first time, and the second he flat out told her that if she didn't properly lead, she would be removed from leading task forces, and put to leading individual squads. He hated having to do it, but he needed results, and she wasn't giving them to him. Avi had completed her assignment with flying colors, and was now assisting the shadow stalkers to train organics to find and kill a tainted, and while they did say that about half the tainted so far were not threats to anything, including themselves, they still needed to be watched in case they were sleeper units.<br/><br/>Nadriina was leading a long campaign against the tainted attempting to become a 'normal' god, and while she was taking longer than Draiss wanted, her losses were non-existent, three drones and one shadow stalker amounting to her total for the nearly two year campaign. He was leaning on her to move a bit faster, as the organic death total was appalling but he really wasn't going to remove her for being cautious. Especially since she had freed almost half the continent from the tainted's control, simply by cutting it off, and they were providing what little support they could as thanks for their freedom. Ash and Kammy had nearly conquered the last few pockets of resistance on his selected ten planes of the Abyss, and only one real section of resistance remained, several very strong fortresses around one 'outbound' portal, on the other side of which there was a breeding facility. He was holding them back from those four fortresses, as they were extremely hard, and he knew if he didn't deal with that breeding facility quickly, the enemy troops coming through that portal would never stop. Niara, Garrus, Circil, and Serena were all doing their own things, but that was not his business unless they made it so. Garrus he trusted with the handful of shadow stalker squads under him, otherwise he wouldn't be waiting for Garrus to get back to him.<br/><br/>The feeling was annoying, and he spent many an hour trying to pin it down, but until it was closer to being on top of him, he wouldn't be able to pin it down anymore. He looked up when Ama confided that she was having a feeling of unease, and considered it for a moment, before asking a slightly roundabout question. "How are you and Kyuubi doing? And Inari, for that matter? Are either of them noting the feeling?"