"Well why didn't you say so?" The demon shouted, "I didn't know you were friends with Glossaryck."

"Well, to be frank 'friend' is a strong word. We're more like... well, I don't actually know how to describe our relationship. Glossaryck is just this... strange being that just... exists. I can try to talk to him but all that'll do is frustrate me and in the end give me a headache or two."

"Well that's because you're going about it all wrong. You don't 'talk' to Glossaryck. If you 'talk' to him all he's going to give you are vague riddles and nonsense because he doesn't care. He has already transcended this reality, leaving behind all mortal attachment. You want to communicate with him in a meaningful way, you have to do the same. Heh... it took me a really long time, but I finally managed to do it. I guess being blind helped with that. But at least I can quote unquote talk with Glossaryck now. So that's a plus."

"Is that why you want to find the Septarians? Because they worship Glossaryck?"

"More or less. He's the only one around who I can really talk to. It gets awfully lonely you see, having no worldly attachment and all. But in a way, it was all worth it."

"What do you mean?"

"Let me tell you something, your highness. When you get a taste of infinity, you'll never want to go back."

The demon was talking nonsense of course. Eclipsa didn't understand any of the concepts. But in a way... she'd wanted to understand. She had talked to Glossaryck countless times. And not once did she feel she was talking to an actual person. Something was missing, she didn't know what.

"The Septarians you see..." the demon explained, "they don't understand. They think that just because they're immortal they can take back this land from the Mewmans."

"You don't think they can?"

"Of course they can, don't be stupid. You honestly think that your queen Solaria could really have destroyed all of the monsters? Though powerful that woman was she was only just a single Mewman. In the face of monsters who do not fear death - they mean nothing. The Septarians could take back Mewni without breaking a sweat. But they have become distant from their gods. They have abandoned the cosmic deities. Consumed by greed, arrogance. But who could blame them? There's nobody around to render their immortality useless, no one to challenge them. The more arrogant they get... the further they drift from their ancestry. It's only a matter of time now before they cut off their ties with the demons of the past. When that happens... heh, it's hard to tell what will happen to me to be frank."

Eclipsa spun her head, only now realizing what he was rambling on about:

"Wh... you... you mean... when the Septarians sever their ancestry ties... you... you'll... die?"

The demon chuckled:

"I am the last of my kind, your highness. Most Mewmans don't even know about the Ancient Monsters, let alone the demons. I have learned the methods of transcendence when my time comes. But if my history is lost... that frankly will be a fate worse than death."

Eclipsa was lost for words. All her life she knew she didn't know much of the outside world. But to think there was someone like this demon out here, a part of her own race's history - her own family's history... the girl just couldn't help but feel guilty.

"Well... you're not going to like this, your highness. But there's a bunch of rats approaching us at high speed this very moment. They seem angry."

"WHAT?" Eclipsa shrieked.

"And... they've surrounded us."

"WHAT?"