"You wouldn't dare Klaeb, surely such an evil is not in your heart. I would have sensed it. That is anger talking, and the time for anger has passed. Move beyond the anger so that we might teach you to be ready to face Shaeg's dark powers, and stand a chance at defeating him."

"I will decide what course to take, and if I decide that you have earned this punishment, than you only have yourself to blame. Twice you have rejected me, think about that in the centuries to come." He turned to leave, intent on letting them suffer. "And I'll stop Shaeg on my own, he will not destroy my world as he did yours. You were just too weak, but I am strong."

"Is this how it was for Shaeg, in the beginning of his own march to utter darkness? Scholars do not know, no one knows how he became this dark vile blight on dozens of worlds. But I could imagine that it was much like this, on that dark day, all those years ago."

And the voice of a child, spoken so bravely, in the face of an unending life of empty beingb echoed in Klaeb's heart, breaking through the unreasonable anger. "What?" He turned and pointed an accusing finger at the invisible child. "I am not Shaeg, I could never be Shaeg. I am better than him!"

"Are you Klaeb? You are worse than him if you leave us to suffer this way."

Klaeb turned and glared at the elder. "I didn't cast you out of your own world, he did. Do not blame me for his terrible crime."

"Aye, he did, but you have the power to reverse his dark deed. To not use that power to save us because you are behaving like a child, and not a man makes you the worse criminal in our minds."

"But you are better than Shaeg, I know this Klaeb. I am but  a child, yet I can see that it is just ysill anger that made you say those awful things. It is not too late, you know you want to save us."

Again the innocence of a child pierced his anger. His eyes watered, and he stammered slightly. "I do, I am not like Shaeg at all, i am just tired of people looking down on me, and it seemed like you were too."

"We just needed you to gain past the limits of your incompatability with our device. Now that you have, you can defeat Shaeg, once and for all. Only it will not be easy. And time is of the essence, Shaeg is insatiable. It will not be long before he moves on to another world."

"And surely, if he is not stopped soon, he will become unstoppable, and then, the universe will be his for thetaking."

Though but a child, she had the wisdom of one much older, and Klaeb trembled inwardly at the idea of Shaeg devastating the universe to satisfy his vile heart.