- A figure hiding in the library's shadows looks somehow blurred, its shape in subtle flux. You hear laughter co
- Shyka laughs musically. "But you've spoken with the Eldest! Many times. Many, many times."
- "The existence of an almost-deity is not so amusing as you seem to think, child. But we are in no mood to lect
- "In anyone else's hands this Crown would just be an ornament. But we can do many things with it. That's why yo
- "This isn't a good time. But it's all right, you can always give us the Crown in the past, when we come for it
- "We are Shyka the Many, the Eldest of Time. We would tell you more, but we already did that in another timelin
- "A self-confident child. We like that!"
- "When you've lived as long as I have, child, you'll be surprised how much of what was once exciting will leave
- "Not yet. It will happen around... yesterday? Or was it a month ago?"
- "More questions, child?"
- "Long long ago one of the Eldest prepared a performance for the others. You must know the curse. 'Destroy a th
- "I have to go."
- "I can still give you the Crown..."
- "Maybe you'll tell us what you're planning to do with the First Crown?"
- "I'm surprised you'd talk to me like this. I thought the Eldest were equal to gods here, in the First World."
- "We've met."
- "Why are you here?"
- "Who are you?"
