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It will find me...
*The gem’s instability grows in its failure to absorb anything of more substance, growing to the point where it’s eating reality around it at a cataclysmic rate*
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Shall it? That troublesome artifact will be neutralized.
*The crystal materializes in my hand, and I throw it into my cloak, which allows it to continue flying indefinitely as if the material were a dark portal instead of a solid*