Orochimaru starts laughing. "More to your power than meets the eye, indeed."

She hums and closes her eyes, fondness blooming. The manic energy and loud whispers calm her nerves. Especially when she embraces them and listens. She stops fidgeting and relaxes.

"Insanity has its perks."

"It does! Quite nice ones, apparently." He wonders what will come of getting her voices interested in his projects. Probably won't destroy the world. "Let's leave these two to their ritual, hm?"

She nods and has to force herself not to relax into her other dimension. Staying in this world is important. Probably. For now.

"Where to next?"

"There's places we can talk, here, or I can try to arrange more entertainment for you."

"Meeting more people would be fun. If that counts as entertainment."

"I can think of a few you might like. One came to me with an apparently malfunctioning bloodline, that releases hormones into his blood, inducing physical changes and rages. He's quite gentle when not worked up, though, and I can restrain him easily enough. Or another is one of my guards, a sensor, who might interact interestingly with your other world..."

"Probably best somebody described as a 'sensor' not be introduced to my world until we have a cure for madness."

"Heh. Probably!"

She laughs.

"I'll take the Incredible Hulk-like guy. I suppose if I make him angry we can go into the Other Side and he can have free reign."

"He might enjoy that. Is the Incredible Hulk someone from your world?"

"Comic book character. Fictional. Bruce Banner got a dose of gamma radiation and turns into a huge green monster when he loses control of his temper."

"Heh. Sounds like some bloodlines."

"You have a Hulk bloodline?" She asks, amused.

"I wouldn't be surprised! Most people don't change skin colors quite so dramatically - there's those like the Hoshigaki, who always have blue skin and shark-like features, and those like Juugo's clan, who are prone to rages and accompanying increased strength, with minor skin color changes, but to my knowledge no green berserkers."

"Can bloodlines intermix?"

"Some do! There unfortunately hasn't been much research as to how, as most clans avoid what they view as 'contamination,' and I haven't had much time to pursue investigation into assorted combinations... A few interact oddly, also, resulting in new bloodlines which may be only partially or categorically related."

"Now I'm curious how they would work with my worlds powers..."

"Fascinatingly, I suspect. The ones that initiate physical or mental changes to their possessor will likely have the most notable interactions..."

She smiles.

"Guess we have a lot to look forward to if we open a way between worlds."

"Very much so! I should make a list of experiments to run and observations to start..."

"Start with the Endbringers and I'll give you all the support you need."

"It's a deal."

Akhlys feels strangely pleased with this and hums in approval. Despite the fact that she's being held captive and he's an evil dictator. It's not that different from home, really.

"Any other pressing problems in your world?"