Oz answered swiftly and with determination. [color=violet]"If we can succeed the rest will be irrelevant. Life [i]IS[/i] change, learning, adapting and doing new things. To remain unchanged, stagnating and rotting would mean death even if I were still walking. Everything can change a human life. It is perhaps one of our greatest strengths."[/color] He paused and glanced briefly away before he slowly finished. [color=violet]"And weaknesses.."[/color]

	The guardian beamed back at Geode with renewed fire in his eyes and a smile. [color=violet]"Up until now I have had to respond to every threat and event with adaptations of my own. Always barely finishing or barely behind."[/color] He raised his fist swiftly into the distance between them in a salute-like gesture. [color=violet]"Now I have the chance to choose change that could put us ahead of our enemies. A change better for both of us.[/color] Oz opened his hand and gestured to his bruised body and missing arm. [color=violet]"I've been beaten and maimed. And you?"[/color] Then he gestured toward the apparition that could barely hold its form together after all this time. [color=violet]"I rest my case."[/color]

	[color=violet]"My point is, I can take the chances. I can make the sacrifice. It's what I do. And it will be worth it!"[/color] He let out a short laugh. [color=violet]"How hard can it be? We're already half-way there."[/color]