[b]Alexa![/b]

"Yeah!" said Mynx, standing behind Bella like a school bully's backup. She looks flushed and embarrassed at having been called out so directly, and folds her arms across her chest. "We know what we're doing and we don't need you butting in! You'll only cause problems for us, so just... find your own way back, okay!?"


[b]Dolce![/b]

"Oh, it was quite the experience," said the Assistant Secretary nostalgically. "I got to contemplate such marvelous things! Black holes, the will of the gods, planetary defense networks..." it sighed. "I even got to contemplate the Great Sundering and the possibilities of crossing it! It was such a unique position - there were not many things grand enough to threaten the Eater of Worlds, and I got to spend my days in contemplation of them and their dangers. Staring into the stars and wondering what other horrors Grandfather Poseidon had left there! Why, there might even be others like the Eater! We might be the smallest amongst them, or not understand the social rules and cues of their society and commit some sort of terrible faux pas."

Its eye was going dreamy as it remembered. "Such a grand adventure. There was so much to fear in the void of space, and I got to catalogue it all."