"I'm not going to beg." I had a stance and I was sticking to it.
"It's nice to see you found him Anzi and convinced him to come to his senses."
"I did no su..."
"Trezlan no one wants you to beg, I just need you to admit you were wrong, forty years of this shit should have taught you that." Forty years thrown in my face like that, I figured maybe ten, ok a lot longer since Anzi was clearly not a child, but still, forty years? Good gods what had I been doing with my time.
"Wrong about what?"
"Trusting the Fire God, you know who you serve, and you should listen to me before the galaxy is destroyed by your machines, or at least the living aspects of it." That's when I saw it, the fear. He was afraid of what would happen when everyone was dead, when everyone was gone. My machines were winning and Hanlon the Death God was afraid.
"Well things must be really bad if my kin has come here, and you have come here, so sure I was wrong to trust her, I was wrong to trust you, I was wrong to trust anyone except myself and even then based on prior decisions I shouldn't do that either!"
"Close enough, Anzi this might sting." The world shifted, it faded, and then we were in Hanlon's corporate offices, though they did look slightly more cluttery than normal. His powers were fading, whatever he'd used in the past to enhance them was obviously no longer working.
"It's nice to be in a place no one is trying to kill me." The door burst open and machines were there guns waiting.
"Trezlan I swear you're an even bigger idiot than I remember."
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