Grabs a hold of Nilbog's mind

"Anyway, I'm off to Ellisburg," I said, slipping into the other dimension before opening a gateway. I did have time to see her eyes widen.

I already had several of my other selves there, waiting and watching.

Appearing next to the thing that was what was left of Jaimie Rinke, I grabbed hold of Nilbog's mind.

We were in a subterranean chamber filled with growth sacs all around us, the next generations of his creatures recycled from the mass of his current ones. He had a puppet body up above, but this was his real body.

"Hello Jaimie," I said. "Let's have your minions keep moving around as they normally do. In the meantime, let's go over all the little boobie traps you've got in the event of your death."

He stared up at me, and I allowed him to speak.

"What… are you going to do."

"I'm going to turn your army into something much, much worse," I said. I smiled at him. "And we're going to get to know one another ever so much better. So let's start talking about the defenses."

As it turned out, they were a lot more extensive than I would have thought, and deactivating them took half the night. But once it was done, it was time to dismantle his power, and that meant that I had to block the entrance to this chamber so his minions couldn't protect him before I was finished.

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Nightmares