I am nothing, if not often looking toward the future, and what new grand workings I can create.

[ She says, but there is hesitation in her voice. Thought. ]

I do not think it would come with the same price, if I found a new principle again. I learned that there is a cost, to stepping beyond that precipice, of taking so many lives.

It is the line even Villains like me should not cross. The step too far, from Villainy and into self-centered indulgence. It does not serve Below, and it certainly circumvents the power possible from the world itself.

[ She can handle a little human sacrifice but draws the line at genocide. ]

So if you are worried I would do so for Meridian, you have little to worry about. That mad a working is something that I cannot do again.

[ Would not, really. ]