Vaati was very nervous about this whole situation. The supposed king seemed to think that he was working with the shadowy one. He had never ever met the guy before. Besides, he didn't work for anybody, he was a completely neutral party. Just a mage wandering the world with no real purpose. The mage nodded when the supposed king asked if it was the only reason he was were. "Yes, I swear. I was simply curious about the power I sensed. Nobody knows much about the desert, so the only way I could answer that was to find it for myself."

He didn't know what the supposed king was talking about when he said a will-less dark servant with power rivaling the Goddesses. Was that what the shadow was? In that case he sounded dangerous and terrifying. It also explained the horribly dark aura. Vaati had dabbled in the dark arts at one point, but had learned more than a spell or two. The evil magic made him feel unclean. "I can assure you I am not working with this other man. I'm simply a willful, neutral partied, mage."