"Well, are you going to introduce me to your god-killing friend?"

"I am concerned that if I try to teleport I will go somewhere other than where I intended. It seems safer not to try to teleport until I'm confident I can get where I want to go. Once that's all settled, sure. If you are not dead by then."

"That's very reasonable of you! But then without meeting your friend I'll have to think about how to do better myself, and you killed one of the best ways I had to do it. Hmm..."

"I didn't actually kill Behemoth. It's kind of a long story but none of it involved me killing Behemoth."

"I'm sure I'll love to hear it sometime but I think it's time for us to go." He stands up. "And I know exactly who we're going to go visit."

"What exactly is your goal here?"

"Who says I have a goal?"

They sure are about to all be teleported to a certain specific empty spot in Texas.

How does that even work -

They get there.

Epic turns himself into a bird.

No he doesn't.

    "He wanted // tried to turn himself into a bird."

"Will wonders never cease?" asks Jack. "But Super, I'd be much obliged if you didn't make our friend get us out to the middle of nowhere."

    "They were coming // arriving // and there were so many of them // only three // four // two and a half of them—"

"You don't need to worry about that, I'll take care of you, like I've been doing, right?"

Superposition's flickering gets marginally less agitated.

Invisible?

He can't—

—but when he tries it Super screams. It's a horrible, disjointed noise, a cacophonous chorus of shrill vocalizations.

"I think that's my cue to stop wasting time, then. Super, do you think you can get us to the golden man?" No response. "I'll give you you-know-what if you do." And that makes the screams stop immediately. He nods.

"Whatever it is I can give it to you I'm a demon you shouldn't work for him he's horrible -" He tries invisible again, he tries inaudible, he tries illusioning himself all black and making himself frozen in a block of ice -

He can go invisible, and inaudible, and illusion himself all black, and freeze himself in a block of ice—

—but he's also teleporting them to Nepal.

Ugh.

Where Scion is putting out a house fire. He pays no attention to the new arrivals.

They should also be inaudible and can he make something to break his necklace -

He cannot make them inaudible, but the necklace doesn't seem to be particularly resistant.

"Hey! Golden man! What are you doing?"

Scion continues to ignore them.

Necklace breaks. He doesn't have an eidetic memory and doesn't have spells. Safer than letting them have them.

"Did you know Behemoth's dead?" Jack continues conversationally. "Or, well, not dead, but this young man doesn't seem to want to disclose the details."

Scion's mind... does react to that. Distantly. One of its many subprocesses allocating some more memory and processing power to decoding the air vibrations and turning it into communication.

Can he make things in Jack.

If it's anything that would kill or otherwise disable Jack then no, but this causes Superposition to scream and flicker some more.

Jack continues unbothered: "A very powerful young man, he is. More powerful than you. But we can't have that, can we? You're supposed to be the most powerful."

Processing, analyzing. No one is supposed to be more powerful than this entity, not on this planet. This entity's pair is gone, and it would have noticed if any other entities had arrived. Could this child be an avatar of a different entity? Perhaps one that could—could—

More subprocesses turn their attention to this interaction—putting out a fire is easy, and this entity was not really getting anything out of it—and they start working overtime on trying to imitate its erstwhile partner. But it can't, not really, and this might be the best chance it will get.

It sends Epic a message, or a million messages—none through sound, none through anything like osanwë, but using channels and frequencies unachievable and undetectable by mankind. There is too much content and too much nuance and too much information even though it can be summarized as different shades of

-greetings.—

- hi. ...these people are hurting me. If you make them stop I'll try to help.