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The gentle incarnation shook his head. "'Too long?' Time is <strong>not</strong>hing <strong>to</strong> us.<br />

You've <strong>to</strong>yed with him with false <strong>of</strong>fers <strong>of</strong> salvation when you could've tried<br />

retrieving it yourself."<br />

"And what have you <strong>do</strong>ne with your life?" he sc<strong>of</strong>fed, "Bumbling about <strong>not</strong><br />

knowing who or what you were, only <strong>to</strong> end up murdered."<br />

"At least I am at peace with myself."<br />

The incarnation snorted, "Peace is <strong>not</strong>hing if you <strong>do</strong>n't have the will <strong>to</strong><br />

survive or progress in your short, miserable life." He suddenly raised an<br />

eyebrow <strong>to</strong> me, "What is it that you know <strong>of</strong> the sphere?"<br />

I grunted, "Nothing but irony. Pharod ended up tricking me in<strong>to</strong> finding it for<br />

him. Why was it so important?"<br />

"Important? Do you <strong>not</strong> know?" The incarnation <strong>be</strong>came silent for a<br />

moment. "Do you have it with you?"<br />

"Yes, I <strong>do</strong>. I brought it with me," I gave my pack a little pat.<br />

"You have it?!" His eyes flared, and suddenly I realized that I may have<br />

divulged <strong>to</strong>o much. "Then your life had some use after all!" His eyes<br />

flickered, as if thinking, calculating. "When we merge, I will see about finding<br />

a means <strong>to</strong> unlock it. Perhaps all is <strong>not</strong> lost..."<br />

"What is the sphere? Why is it important?"<br />

"It is a dead sensory s<strong>to</strong>ne. Do you know what it contains?!" He smiled<br />

eagerly. "It holds the last experiences <strong>of</strong> the first <strong>of</strong> us. When we were one<br />

man, and <strong>not</strong> a string <strong>of</strong> incarnations." His voice dropped. "If there is some<br />

way <strong>of</strong> unlocking it, I will <strong>be</strong> able <strong>to</strong> see inside his mind..."<br />

"And see why this all happened?"<br />

"Yes..." The incarnation's face grew som<strong>be</strong>r. "It is the answer I have always<br />

sought. Why this happened. Why we <strong>be</strong>came immortal. When we merge, I<br />

will see about finding a means <strong>to</strong> unlock it. Perhaps all is <strong>not</strong> lost..."<br />

The kind incarnation murmured again, s<strong>of</strong>tly under his breath. "Perhaps<br />

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