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Focus, in the raging of breaking cords and whiplashing fibers of the unfurling of all, was easier said then done. And he was weary, weary in doing so little and drained by some outward force that barely defined itself through his memories.

It was not dissimilar to the Fading, only it was more...

something. Mortal words and speech, that which he was tied and left to descry the stuff around and inside him with, seemed to have too many words and not a single one that could encapsule the whole of the madness.

Maybe that would be enough, itself: Madness.

But focus he did finally achieve, puling star upon star in and out of himself and shifting here or there and found the last weak glimmers of the Emblem Pillar that echoed with some old, dead and quieted rhythm....barely, barely.

But it was there and it was unmistakable. Here was one of the Dragon Kings that had only just been brought from the brink. Universe took bodily form, coalesced in stars and shadowed nebula and walked to find this King.

The host of this one was unmistakable. The lone figure outside the more-or-less tomb, and pinpointed to the source of the Dragon's power. Not of human adaption, though perhaps fitting enough for a dragon. The Kings had chosen bipedal forms rarely enough in the past.

Still, it was a host, no mistake in that from the persistent weakness of the feel of the dragon. Yu Five Claws was a jewel. This thing, if it had a name, was in control of their joint destiny, for now.

"Host to Yu Five Claws!" He called as he strode up behind the thing, staying some seven paces from an arm's reach.

"If the simpleton teeth of a mortal host seek to tear into me they shall find themselves removed of them." Lucius snarled. Dragon or no, he did not stoop to fear of hosts. "Just the same I speak to you both. Host and god."

The god spoke in voice separate easily. Either he was very, very close to his emergence, or like so many of the others Lucius had already noted about the complex, a fool. They all spoke early and often, burning through themselves and their powers like greedy fires.


"Is much memory left to you, Emblem Pillar?"

"'Stranger' then to you the very stars must seem above, Yu. I am Universe. "

No memory at all. Flashes. Phantoms did little good as it was before with him. Misinterpreted they could only go astray, if they could be called forth and be useful images distinct enough to decipher anyway.

And this thing, distasteful, didn't seem much worth bothering with. Jogging of memories, while an original aim, seemed less and less profitable as the seconds of staring at the dragon source waned.


"If there is not memory, it is just as well. You brothers will no doubt trouble you with the findings of this and other fore days. Worldshield and I checked Harmodius' chambers, and found there some tomes. They set me to thinking, your title of old was the Emblem Pillar. The symbol and seat of the Power of the Throne. There was small chance that something may have been left to you. I see it is not so."

"The last standing seems hardly to have had much to do with whether the being was powerful or not. "

there was no use in this and certainly no joy in dealing with a self...no, no it had awareness but he wouldn't deem it sentient or aware enough to have defined a Self yet. The arguements of ID and Ego could be left to some god of psychology, if they even came in that flavour. Something of a specific discipline. If there had been deified Clouds, perhaps he should not scoff.

It all made his head ache.
There must have been something that could have once been won from the Emblem Pillar. Failed once, it was probably lost forever.
"Blessings on your further day then, Yu."

It was a neutral tone to it, and he did not turn his back on the creatue. DragonKing or not, he did not trust it. Lucius walked a side path, towards the lava fields of the garden.