AndrewRogue: Hmmm... I SO WANT TO KILL MAB

AndrewRogue: I just want to give Verity the command.

AndrewRogue: ~Zao... what are you thinking?~

Dark Japheth: <I don't want to needlessly threaten you all. If I can beat Ikakog alone, my hope lay in this and nothing else.>

AndrewRogue: ~And you would trust Mab?~

Dark Japheth: <No. But Verity does. Within limits.>

AndrewRogue: ~And what would you do if she lies? I don't trust anything she says at the moment.~

Dark Japheth: <Then I am no worse off.>

AndrewRogue: ~Or your soul is next on the chopping block.~

Dark Japheth: <And so what? I am living without my soul as it is.>

Dark Japheth: <Nothing Mab could do to me would begin to even scratch the slightest depths of what Bayushi did to me. Or my father.>

AndrewRogue: ~Yet you would turn to her power instead of your own?~

Dark Japheth: <My power I know to be insufficient.>

AndrewRogue: ~You can get stronger without... without whatever she offers!~

Dark Japheth: <Perhaps. But by that time, will my beloved be dead?>

Dark Japheth: <I have to take this chance.>

AndrewRogue: ~...Zao! You have with you everything you need to stop Ikkakog already...~

Dark Japheth: <I may. But I do not wish for Verity, or you, or even Hunter to die or even be harmed in the slightest fighting my battle.>

AndrewRogue: ~Zao... is this what she would really want thought? You to sell... to sell your soul to a devil when you have the power yourself? Around you?~

Dark Japheth: <What power?>