<em>~Past... I feel I should know that word. As though I am learning it. Somewhere I know this word, but I can't unlock it from my brain. What is happening to me is... I don't know. I think it is this place. Remaining here like this, being a resident instead of a visitor, it changes you. When I am arriving here with my brethren, yet others are greeting us. Things far stranger. However we are growing used to the changes. In a way, we are more uniform now, so much easier to declare ourselves different to the horrors, yet the same as each other.~</em><br/><br/>The fiends both pale. Scourge looks briefly at Kay'sien, who nods and shudders. It seems they both know what it is.<br/><br/>"Standing before us... this is a progenitor of the Illithid race. No wonder they are so confident. We are confident because we are infinite, and were created with a purpose, and can continue fulfilling this purpose as we exist. But those..."<br/><br/>"They are confident because they already know they've won!"