I agree with that assessment. [Reyes, of course, knew Nia better than she did. She wonders if there would be a way to resolve this peacefully, to convince her to let them open a gate and take the Entities with them.

She thinks no. But she also thinks Nia never would have won with her paltry human tactics. It doesn't matter.]

Once I'm back in my world... there's quite a lot that I can do that I wasn't able to here. This place put a limit on my power, but in that time I have grown a great deal stronger still, partly because of them.

[It's poison, this hubris. It's a burning poison and it'll kill her like it's burned a billion wizards. Like it burned Jonathan Sims. Like it incinerated all the avatars that reached toward the sun and tried to pull it from the sky.

But the fire... it loves her.]

This is the only way we can win.