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After this bloody meal, I retreated to a dark area, the darkest in the whole base, at the very bottom...
There, the darkness was absolute.There was a dead end corridor, the back of the base where the darkness and the shadows were almost liquid.
I brought a kind of alcohol made with the juice of goblins, fairies and elves. I put it at the bottom and stepped back, flat on my back, and began to cry with terror and loneliness...
A depression came over me and the next thing I knew I was in deep space, far from any light.
I was in a wormhole....The infinite mass around me was dancing and I was at the entrance, tiny... like a speck of dust. The only light that reached me were the eight pairs of giant eyes...
The vial went through the tunnel and disappeared into the darkness.
The "celestial jaws" reached out in my direction and I felt the gravity and the almighty mass of this end-of-time creature.
A claw pointed at me and the claw alone must have been 20 times my size but I took it between my paws and rubbed my muzzle against it and started to lick it...
"Mom... "
Any voice being impossible in space it was a telepathic message.
Hydra: "I know, my child .... But I am proud of you. You are progressing faster than expected, but the trials ahead will require you to be strong. But I believe in you."
"Mom...it's hard to be alone....Can I stay a while?"
I clung to her coal-black claws for a moment, crying like a child in his mother's skirts.
"Carnage, in my crystal palace, I can see possible futures but I am forbidden, shall we say, impossible to interfere but I would like you to ask yourself questions.
Don't forget who you were, that you were a scientist and that war is one thing and violence and cruelty another. Don't lose yourself if you want to survive.
Don't forget that you are not alone, not alone anymore. Violence must not blind you and become your second nature."
"Are they coming?"
The hydra smiled...revealing cosmic fangs. An image was sent to me where in huge cells filled with eternal ice lay wounded and mutilated multi-headed hydras and dragons to varying degrees, broken, shattered.
"Carnage, these are the ones like you or like me who are lost beyond redemption."
I bowed my head.
"Yes... I will be careful..."
Then the claw went back to the other side of the universe...My spirits were lifted. But a lightning bolt went through the tunnel and up into the depths of the base....
