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[koboi]

I do not see why this is necessary, Mud Girl. This is a waste of my precious time, and I was forced to waste quite a bit of that already, as you well know.

My patience with you is running thin, and believe me if I say that you do not want that.

Go and choose some lesser being to play your immature games with, I have plans to carry into effect.

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[fowlplots]

Are you chafing at the idea of being held at the mercy of someone else's whims, Opal? Having your own wishes disregarded for their amusement.

[Gee, he wonder what that feels like!]

[koboi]

[ Oh Artemis, she knows what you are getting at. She would frown if it weren't so bad for her skin. ]

It is an entirely different matter when it happens to those who deserve it, Artemis.

[ It's even more different if it happens to satisfy her need for vengeance, come to think of it. And there's some justice in him being there as well, isn't there. ]

[fowlplots]

Believe me when I sincerely say that I see no one more deserving than you, Opal.

[He's not going to be very comfortable with the idea of being against Opal with no backup.]

[koboi]

After all you put me through to thwart my plans? Mud boy, you ought to invest into a mirror.

[ She thinks nothing could be more in her favor than him being on his own. On the other hand, she also thinks people should take to calling her empress. ]

[fowlplots]

Considering the number of lives you've harmed I still believe that you're the more corrupt of the two of us.

[ He's duty bound to warn the enclosure of what she is. And even if standing alone against Opal is an awful thought he'll do it. ]

[koboi]

Those were nothing. Collateral damage, if you so will.

[ It all depends on just how powerful she will be upon entering. With magic, she is an immediate threat, but without... Without, she will have to work a bit harder for her victory.

Not that that would be a problem, she's determined enough and has the intellect it'd take. ]

[fowlplots]

Commander Root was not collateral damage. The animals you tortured in the past were not collateral damage. My mother was not collateral damage.

[ He'll have to take precautions once she arrives. Increase the security of his apartment in addition to warning the other residents. And acquire a pair of mirrored sunglasses if she should still have her magic. ]

[koboi]

Your mother? You can hardly blame that on me, Artemis. It was my past self, a part of the time paradox you helped to create with your time traveling.

She, too, is no more than collateral damage now. So will your mother ultimately be, once I am ruling the world.

[ Nothing, absolutely nothing, can prepare her for arriving. Though the warning will surely help the current citizens of Luceti. Even if not everyone will take a teenager seriously, especially not if he warns people of a three-foot-tall pixie. ]

[fowlplots]

You will never rule the world. After all, for all your intellect and meticulous planning you always lose to 'lesser beings'. Humans and simple elves.

[ At the very least if he mentions her crimes people might be more likely to pay attention. And if worst comes to worst he'll do his best to provoke her and display the results. ]

You have lived lifetimes longer than I and yet repeatedly you've failed to best me. You cannot win, Opal.

[koboi]

[ If completely rational, from severe delusions unaltered thinking were possible, Opal could conclude that all she'd have to do was sitting his, by comparison rather short, lifetime out.

Sadly, this did not work for two reasons. One: the severe mental delusions that make her overestimate herself, and at the same time hinder her from being as smart as she could be. And, reason number two: her victory would be made sweeter with any second Artemis, Holly Short, Foaly and everyone tied to the two of them suffered at her hands. ]

I can, I will, and I will make sure you can watch me win. Then, I will have you murdered in a slow, complicated and, for the audience, entertaining way.

Actually, I might have you cloned beforehand, so I can relive that last part over and over.

[fowlplots]

[ ...Yeah he's not mentioning how death isn't a permanent thing in Luceti. He doesn't want to give her ideas. ]

Promises, promises. You make them time and time again and then continually fail to follow through. I hope you didn't run your business the way you plot your death traps.

[koboi]

[ B-but she'd have so much fun with that! ]

In the light of recent events, namely the incident that threw back humanity into medieval times in terms of technology and did severe damage to a good many things in the Lower Elements, I believe I ran my business as perfect as I am, at least as long as I needed to.

[ Never mind that the point went slightly over her head in favor of her relishing in her ... somewhat victory in that regard. ]

And, if I may point out, my business was legal.

[ Somewhat. For the majority of time. ]

[fowlplots]

[ Damn her fun. He doesn't want to deal with a revival penalty impairing for months. ]

Ah yes, the incident where you effectively killed yourself and then were defeated by your own clone. And then your technology helped bring me back to life.

As for my business, it was illegal but I never accumulated a body count with my ventures.

[koboi]

[ A fair point any sane person would see. Hah. ]

None of which could be blamed on me.

I doubt your vest is as white as you claim it is, Mud Boy. Only because you do not know of any deaths, they might still have occurred.

[fowlplots]

There is still a distinct difference between us, though. I feel remorse for the damage I have inflicted.

[ Regretted it so much and so deeply that the latent bit of magic he'd stolen had caused Atlantis Complex in him.]

I've been looking into my past deeds and finding ways to make up for my mistakes. You never look back on to see the destruction you've caused on your path.