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===IX: The Bargain=== | ===IX: The Bargain=== | ||
The Verse opens with the narrator describing Aurash standing upon the needle. It tells her she should be dead, crushed by immense pressure and heat, except that it sustained her. | |||
The narrator then reveals itself to be Yul, the Honest Worm, one of the five Worm Gods. These others he calls Virtuous. Yul describes himself as vast and ponderous, full of strength, and immense. He describes himself as having great jaws and folded wings, and all of the colonies of creatures living upon him in symbiosis. He finishes by calling himself "fecund", able to produce life and sustain it. The others are presumably similar in size. | |||
Yul then describes their history, that the Fundament is actually a prison. The wording is unclear but while they remained imprisoned they grew also; calling other species to roost upon the planet, to test them and see if they were worthy. He finishes by saying they have waited millennia for Aurash and her sisters to find them. | |||
Then he offers them a bargain. The Leviathan, he claims, would destroy them in fear, and that it has conspired to drown them with the Syzygy. To combat this he says the Worm Gods could help them. First they must take into each of their bodies a larva, in order to become eternal, and be free of their "fragile flesh". The larva, Yul claims, would allow them to remake their bodies and the world in their image. for whatever is imperfect they would destroy — no law would bind them, save one. | |||
Aurash would forever obey her inquisitiveness, Sathona her cunning, and Xi Ro her strength. They would never cease to obey the defining traits lest they be consumed by their worm. But if they succeed both they and the worm will grow stronger. Yul promises this is a small price to pay for eternity, that they would benefit the most out of it. | |||
He concludes by inviting Aurash to accept his offer. | |||
===X: Immortals=== | ===X: Immortals=== | ||