
O)(, SO PRECIOUS! T)(EIR LITTLE MINDS SPARKLE LIKE S)(ATTERED GLASS—)(OLY, RADIANT, WORT)( CRADLING IN T)(E DARK.

^I'd aryue we are quite similar, actually. Don't we BOTH yo on our BROBDINGNAGIAN sesquipedalian soliloquys, products of violent overusaye of BESIEGED thesaurii, words INCOMPREHENSIBLE to the reyular troll, unused in centisweeps? The only difference... I'm not quite as edyy as you.^

EDGY? )(US)( NOW, YOU VENOMOUS W)(ISPER. YOU KEEP YOUR PRETTY LITTLE T)(INKPAN WIT)( ITS JEWELS INTACT, W)(ILE MINE CRACKS OPEN TO LET T)(E MOONS IN. YOU'RE JUST A S)(OVE, A CRUEL NUDGE DOWN T)(E SPIRAL STAIRS! AND YOU KNOW IT, YOU SLY S)(ADOW—T)(AT'S T)(E PUNC)(LINE T)(AT STINGS!

^Oh, come on now. You yive me too much credit. I'm just a researcher, a watcher. BETTER to lose your mind to an audience than lose your mind alone, no?^

T)(E CRIMSON W)(ISPERS SING OF LOAT)(ING, O)( YES! I )(OLD YOUR S)(ARDS IN MY TREM8LING PALMS AND PRESS T)(EM TO MY FANGED GRIN. I’D SEIZE YOUR TWISTED )(ORNS AND GNAW UNTIL T)(E SPACE TASTES OF YOU. UG)(! YOU DANCE LIKE A CRACKED MIRROR—FRUSTRATING, 8EAUTIFUL, MADDENING LITTLE 8EAST!

^How forward, how BOLD. Riyht here in a PUBLIC forum? Well, you've truly lost your mind, haven't you.^

W)(AT DO T)(E W)(ISPERS SAY. FOR ONE W)(O CLAIMS T)(E CROWN OF T)(E WISE, YOU )(EAR NOT T)(E MELODY IN MY VEINS, NOR T)(E S)(ADOW T)(AT DANCES 8E)(IND YOUR OWN EYES.

^To match you in maudlin poesies, I do know them. I know, in kind, what is it that drives away the shadows. Somethiny older than truth, older than time, and it is flame.^

FIRE, OO)(, PRETTY LIG)(TS! I'M MEANT TO COWER FROM T)(E FLICKER? DARLING, YOUR JA8S STING LIKE A CARD8OARD SUN, AND YOUR T)(READS SCREAM LOUDER T)(AN MY EC)(OES.

^Oh, I'm simply sayiny. Some of us face INCOMPREHENSIBLE vastness and deal with it in much more diynified ways.^

AND YOU WEAR T)(E MASK OF DIGNITY? )(A! T)(E MASK SLIPS, I SEE T)(E CRACKS. NO, NO—I 8ELIEVE NOT A W)(ISPER OF IT.