Date: Unspecified
Time: Unspecified
Location: Myriad Realms, Lil' Red Storm Realm
"How can someone be so aware and yet equally ignorant at the same time?"
Dalia finally broke her silence, precisely on Hive Spirit's cue. They had thawed Thalorien enough. Now it was time to cook him.
Thalorien lifted his exhausted head at the sound of her voice. By now, he looked almost like a deranged loon. His blood-red eyes were sunken from mental exhaustion, his expression strained, and his once-composed demeanor had been reduced to something bordering on desperation.
There was an unsettling resemblance between him and the Froslings he had once experimented on, the ones whose newborns he had slaughtered in front of them whenever they failed to meet his standards. Yet despite his miserable state, a strange light appeared in his eyes when Dalia finally spoke, relief. At least she was no longer ignoring him.
