Short but - I hope - sweet. Sorry for the delay.

He is bleeding out.

That fucking bitch and her tempest tantrum.

He laughed out loud... he really could have been a great comedian if he hadn't been Caesar "What an artist dies in me"... Now he was misquoting his fucking bloated successor... Nero... the fucking anti-... "BITCH! Have you any idea what you have let loose on this world? Your foolish affection for the girl has let a threat exist that WE - her brothers - had no choice but to end in genocide. I LOVED her! Even when I was her entrapper! SHE knows it!"

"Did you get a good idea of how to kill people who don't fight back from the experience? Nazi?" her voice called out.

He laughed. "Nazi? You and Bathory have a little girl time? You are gifted. I've been curious where that jewelry vanished to. I was hardly a major participating player. Yes I gave the little private the locket... as I was instructed to do. I killed to perpetuate his influence... But I no more created the ignorance of the fools he conned than I birthed the weed that sunlight plus shit left in a field created. 'The jews are the men who will not be blamed for nothing'. MY words written on the wall in Whitechapel... remember? translated... No matter how insain, or impossible for them to commit... the jews will be blamed for everything... even crimes I commited. insanity beyond even me." He remembered the surprised face of Borman... just before he gutted him in the ruins of that train station. Ten long minutes...volcanus was happy.

"Expect me to buy that? You and your kind always giving the same tired excuse: Following orders. Like I said... Nazi."

"I have no issue with the children of Israel... I in fact tried to stop the stupid fuck before his assenine plan was initiated. I set Heydrich up to be assassinated. Mass murder doesn't FEED Volcanus... TERROR does! They were more use alive. ALRIGHT? The more living in fear the better. The people who accept that death is inevitable loose the fear it; kill them they love? then death holds not but bliss. IDIOTIC fools... every single one of those Hugo Boss wearing fucks. THEY - the jackbooted jackasses -were vermin... not their victims."

"You still need to pay for your part in it all."

"Then come and KILL ME! But kill your precious Sam too... for her souls sake; before the bitch Inside her decides she no longer needs you. You want to save the world? For those YOU love! All others are grist for the mill, and cannon fodder! TRUE EVIL cannot simply be reduced to a blatant example like myself... The walking monster. By doing so you fail to see it's source... you let it fester in your own shadow... Lust... possessive desire... for all things: Pride, love, Revenge, self righteous indignations... Answers. Name it. All other people be dammed. I know... I fed it. Why do you think I'm still bleeding, yet breathing? Volcanus likes you. You're a good fit. You have my sympathies." He laughed again... and bled some more. The old one was amused. or was it the old one?

"Why? Why kill your lover?"

"A good question... finally. Hoshi. The girl had enchanted a water nymph."

"AND?"

"You see that giant garden gnome in your front yard? The one your lover is failing to scratch? We thought him one of us, and dead. Killed by a water nymph. He was taken into her realm. He must be a holder of the birth right of the earth element... a child of the thrice blessed womb."

"And?" She sounded further away... moving from vent to vent? Clever girl.

He pulled a blade from the scabbards, "Unbreakable, " he gasped.

Hurried, soft footsteps in the foyer.

"Achilles," he almost whispered, "We thought him blessed by the sylph, fast, strong, not nearly as clumsy as us... no; he was far more fucked over than we were... he can't die... ever. Now take his 'gift' and add to it power over the storm... Hell, ALL nature... with HER sweet disposition. Understand?"

"I understand that you would say anything to distract me." close.

"Even the truth. Tell me, has she suggested seeking out a water nymph? If so... congratulations... Mom.; and Yes, It's a girl. Just like she wanted. Now... how anxious are you to rush in here now? You haven't visited the lady of the lake... have you? What don't I know... sister?"