Ah, aaaah. But is it not our choices, as ever-changing and ever-willful as they are, that make us part of these cycles? Are we not given free-will, to do so with as we please? Hm..! Hm! The world is not a slot-car race, no; we are ever timed only to the pulse of our own lives, the beating of our own hearts!

[ He laughs again, joyfully this time. ]

I will rob him of every thing that marks him a threat. I will remove him from the battlefield of existence completely, forcing him to remain ever the watchful, uninvited sow.