Only you can stop this.

"So… so I do this, and what happens? I know they messed with Jake… Marco… Ax… and were gonna mess with me, but who? What happens to me? Do I get anything out of this?"

I will make it so none of this ever happened. Jake will be fine. Marco will be fine, along with his father. And Ax will be alive. So… you in or not?

"Yeah. I'm in. Why do you talk like that?" Tobias asked.

Like what?

"Like that. Like a kid. Not all proper and stuff," he said.

I am not a pompous old pig like the Ellimist and Crayak. In their terms, I am a child, but I've been around several millennia. I don't lie like the Ellimist and I'm much nicer than Crayak. Why? Do you not like it?

"No. It's better," Tobias said with a grin. "Very kind descriptions."

I know. You can tell that we are the best of pals, me, Ellimist, and Crayak.

Tobias grinned even wider. "So… what do I have to do? Kill anybody? What? And WHO is messing with us?"

Let me tell you a story…