>EXCERPT FROM THE NOTES OF CORRESPONDENT #314, ETC.>>5973510"Another! Another degenerated form---this one a lizard-girl, even smaller and shorter-necked than the other. I shouldn't stumble over myself: it could be that a body-plan like this is separately, coincidentally popular. The probability of relation is not high. But imagine if there were relation! If the WYRM's influence spans that far! But no, again, one shouldn't range too freely. The lizard-girl's voice and inflection, after all, was uniquely irritating. Would one *want* to be relatives with such a tiny thing?
Still, the tidbits it shared were of great interest.
>Oh, and I guess if you'd ask him, he'd probably say something like, the fact he's turning into a great, powerful and beautiful dragon and how it might cast him away from humanity, as if *they* matter.[In notes.] "A 'dragon'. Not a pre-installed term. Some digging revealed the general meaning: a powerful, intelligent, monstrous reptile. That this human man was turning into. Maybe there is such a thing as a Script."
[Aloud.] "What is the nature of this 'turning into a dragon'? I presume you mean physically? What changes have already occurred? Who is perpetrating this?"
>Hehe! He killed his stupid worthless father![In notes.] "If there is a Script, it is a comedy. (And I am the butt of the joke.)"
>Because he was worshipping the monstrosities that usually hide and try to heal in the darkest of dungeons, faaaaar to the west! Demon worshippers, and worshippers of the Heart of the World, seeking to burst from this planet like an egg when it finishes gestating. [In notes.] "This could be an elaborate hallucination."
[Aloud.] "Would that be such a bad thing, this bursting like an egg? What has this Heart of the World promised? This father must have worshipped it for some reason."
>Pppsssshhhh... He's kiiiiiinda already there, right? [In notes.] "Already a God-- yes. There is no alternative."
>Power doesn't corrupt! It just reveals."I prefer to think it 'intoxicates.' It cannot put urges into you-- but it certainly can draw them out, no matter your desire otherwise."
>Handle, rod and, uh, the teethy bit. I never learned the name of that. "The teethy bit are the "cuts," the "bits," "or the "teeth." You were two-thirds of the way there."
>Power. Power applied with either great amounts of it, or very precise amounts of power, which is just a multiplier.[In notes.] "There is more brain in that tiny skull than it would appear."
>Oh, and I'm guessing the dragon's mate, Paracelsus, might take some time out to judge the other contestants."I look forward to it. Is she a reptile?"
