BGM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW5VcbCo_z4'...'
I could almost feel sweat on my forehead from taking this all in at once. If I am to hope to be able to overthrow the Trinity, THIS is the place I have to storm...?
[NOBLE VOICE] "Come hither."
I turned around and looked up, to the higher branches. I could see that somewhat, the middle of this tree was still structured like a grand palace. I saw gilded palatial walls encrusted with pure diamond. Not in a fashion of decor, but untidy, jagged chunks of gleaming diamond to such a scale as to wrap around and fuse with the bark. I saw stairs leading up, and followed them. I followed them a viewing ground, or a balcony built into the tree. The ground was solid and flat, it was like a big ring in the middle of the trunk's top, which the branches grew around in a spiral. I saw a throne, with a great pillow and canvas far ahead of me, and large openings in the diamond and gold walls peering out into the circling clouds beyond the branches at the very top.
I saw a figure in a blue cape, and I knew very well who he was.
[SARAKHA] "Stop." He said, throwing up a hand. I stood still where I was in the middle of his throne room; "Come no closer. Merely stand and listen. I refuse to face you, however as you are not worthy of facing."
'You know who I am.'
[SARAKHA] "I do. I've known for a long time. Be you grateful that I have never taken any action against yourself or the rebels you callously inspire. The sickening rhythm of the very name, that I should speak it alone a testament to my disappointment in you. And this... Psyops of yours."
'Is it ruthless absence of passion, or fear?'
[SARAKHA] "You are very much not someone I fear, and your efforts do not give me pause. Do not mistake my lenience. You are hopeless. Against me, and against him who swims down under."
'That must be why you're sitting here under the Sun at all times, in the arm's reach of your Emperor then, I guess.'
[SARAKHA] "You were given enough grace to be allowed to even enter this holy place. I bid you still the venom, and cleanse your tongue. That you stand here now is granted. Should you continue to exist past this point, then it is something I am allowing."
'...' I sighed.
He was right.
He could likely just smite me. Strike me down now where I stood with little effort.
'How come you let you walk here now, even telling me to stay away if I won't join you? Surely, you must know how my soul is set right now.'
[SARAKHA] "You've come here because you wished to hear. Why else would you seek to climb the Tower and reach me? You want to know... You want to know exactly what it is like, to be in these shoes. But you also wish to know why it is that I think this."
'What?'
[SARAKHA] "You are wrong."
