>>5669458And so you do: you fetch the Great One from his chamber, where he, his harem, and the so-called Red Dragonborn (really a brownish-orange hue) whose souls you awakened and freed make their residence. In the time you have been away, these younger Dragonborn have grown considerably, as is typical of young Reptilians, and they greet you eagerly, rambunctiously, and with a sort of friendly hostility. Your experience parenting your numerous wyrmlings proves handy in holding them at bay, so they do not by sheer numbers overwhelm you… or worse yet, accost and destroy yoru Princess.
“Are these your family?” Ekaterine asks, unable tor restrain her curiosity even as the threat of these numerous and energetic dragonspawn, each at least half her weight and approaching her diminutive height.
“Of a sssort,” you say, and then wave to your big brother himself.
“Great One,” you say, “I have returned!”
Ekaterine is again vocally shocked by the shifting of the Great Green Dragonborn, so large that at first she had missed him for the vivacious activities of the smaller and younger ones. The Great One regards her with evident interest of his own, before looking back to you, and rumbling with fond greeting.
“Buh-ruhthur,” he welcomes you home. “Back from hyoo-muhs? Brought snack for me?”
He rumbles with a deep laughter, and you recognize the comment as a joke, and laugh along with him.
“Better than that,” you reply, and beckon him to come with you—leaving his harem of slight-framed Silkscale females the unenviable task of managing the Red Dragonborn in his absence.
When you manage to squeeze the Great Oen into the Chamber of the Mind, the Baleful Behold is still present in his immaterial way, waiting with the patience of the truly immortal. Your big brother trusts you enough to allow you to cut his hand as well and, with some difficulty, you guide him through his requisite prayer.
“Now, you shall have what you have sought and earned,” says the Wisest One. “Your brother’s fog shall be lifted, his mind liberated, his intellect unbound!”
