Draiss was up in a flash, his lips pulled back into a silent snarl, the scales spreading further, and though his voice was calm and collected, his eyes burned. "I NEVER threatened you. I never will threaten you, or OUR daughters, though I am only their sire, not their father. I honestly don't care about those billions of others, but if I do nothing, everything dies. So I am forced to care, to stretch further than I am able, all to protect those who are MINE. And I told you, that last night, that I would likely be gone a while, and that I would return when I was able, if I was able, but apparently you didn't hear me, or don't remember it."<br/><br/>He abruptly seemed to deflate, the burning in his eyes, the snarl, the scales that had been forming around his throat and across his face fading away to nothing, and collapsed into a chair that hadn't been there before he started to sit. The map flicked and burned out, leaving him appearing as just an exhausted human, trying to make sense of the madness that was his life.