When the Carver invaded Zadok's mind there was a moment of instinctual defence, as he reflexively tried to force the being out. However, once that moment passed he dropped his defences, as he knew that the Carver would need to know what information he had. The experience was unpleasant, but he managed to deal with it without any fuss. After a period of time Zadok could not measure, the Carver ceased its probing and shared some of its own memories. Nostalgia touched Zadok when he received the memory of Sophist. Once the Carver had finished sharing, however, there was no time for nostalgia. The situation was graver than he had thought. The Ripper could do much more than consume this universe if the core was breached.

Then the Carver suddenly wrapped himself around Zadok and carried him into the Source. This came as a surprise initially. While the Weaver was rarely polite enough to ask permission, Zadok had never travelled inside the Weaver. This experience was new to him, but he suspected that this position put him at the Carver's mercy as well as under its protection. Inside the Source he was surrounded on all sides by billowing red gases, increasing in energy as they descended, until the energy became so intense that it was comparable to the plasma of a star. Even shielded by the Carver Zadok could feel the magic saturating his body.

Eventually they reached the core of the Source, and came face to face, so to speak, with the Ripper. This being of destruction spoke differently to how he remembered the Weaver- the voice was fragmented into many different voices with differing views. The Ripper noticed him immediately, and spoke. The insults hurled at Zadok did not phase him, for many Keepers had cursed him before, but one voice caught his attention. It was almost drowned out by the flurry of other voices, but the voice of the Weaver as Zadok had known it struck a chord with him.

Then the Ripper struck out at him and the Carver. The red tendril of destruction stretched over the green energies that made up the Carver, but before they could tighten Zadok released a mighty flash of holy light, ridding himself of the magical energy which was saturating his body, which dissolved the Ripper's tendril. But it was merely a tendril, and the Ripper remained. Zadok then decided to speak to the malevolent ball of red energy.

[b]Weaver, why must you destroy everything? This world is a chance to start anew. Can you not see that there is no point in this?[/b] Zadok pleaded, trying to appeal to what good might be left in the Ripper.