OOC: SInce its near the end I think I'll do this.
Alone a figure walked through whiteness, unsure about how far he had walked. Clad in flesh he gazed at his hand and willed it to become a blade as he had done so many times, nothing happened so he kept walking.
After eternity or a mintute, it could have been either, he stopped and fell to his knees. He was nothing, there was nothing here...or so he thought.
He felt something, a presance and all he could think of was to challenge it.
"WHY!" He yelled. "This is not release! You liar!"
His voice echoed into the distance of nothingness before a dark chuckle descended from what was most likely the ceiling or sky, it could have been either.
A long, drawn out hiss followed by the grazing of scales across...a surface but any surface around him was bleak whiteness. He wheeled around to look upon the greyish blue serpent that leered at him. He suddenly felt small and insignificant as he mumbled. "How could you lie? You-you were an AI system."
At that the serpent began chuckling again.
"Did you not read thoroughly through the 'Jormungander' sssssysssstem? If not any fool could tell you sssssuch feats of technology are impsssssible for your racccce asssssss it isssssss now." The serpent retorted as it slithered out of sight before continuing. "No, no. I came from before. Before your preccccccioussssss Fleetssssss, your warssssssss, before you even crawled from the occccccean."
As it spoke this time a scaled hand appeared in the corner of the man's eye and grapped his throat, hauling him into the air to face the serpent. "My SSSSissssssster returned before me, to warn you of me, to have you flee as far as you could." The mans eyes widened as the serpent chuckled and let him fall to the floor. "Ahhhh you ssssee now? Your people labled our kind the Old out of ignorance. Well let me tell you what thisssssss old would asssssssk of you but firssssssst I assssssssk thissss of you...How do you sssstil exist? Don't bother ansssssswering, I already know. You, Jamesssssss or Varger, are a possibility..."
The serpent was on him after that, coiled around him as it gazed into his eyes, its seductive tone replaced by a vicious and animalistic snarl. "THAT MAKESSSSSS YOU USSSSSEFUL TO ME!" The seductive tone returned. "I am a mere conccccccept, a dream, a void. Endlessssss, weightlessssss, formlessssssss. Lesssssssss and....more..." He let the coils slowly untighten and Varger or James, he could have been either, fell to the floor. "Possssssibilitiessssss are alot more real...my interaction with eternity is limited to areas where I am more than an idea...you sssssssssssshall be.....my agent." James' eyes opened up.
"I...could go...back?"
"Yessssssss but you mussssssssst do exactly as I ssssssssay."
Standing up Varger looked the eternal serpent in the eye. "What must I do?"
