It was just over a foot high, maybe fourteen inches. “Hi, I come in peace and swear to serve you if you allow it. While I was deciding what to do about this new creature, it spoke to me. If my passenger was bonfire, and I was a forest fire, then this new arrival was now the candle. It had a dark magic signature, much like my interloper who I still hadn’t figured out how to communicate with. Something different happened, something entered my domain. I had no clue, so I went back to what I was doing, building the layers and absorbing magic… The question was, how was I supposed to communicate with it to ask my questions? The light magic entered the core at my bidding, and I constructed a cage of light magic around the being, cutting it off from all but a small amount of dark magic to sustain it. It was also fairly simple to determine, unlike my soul, the other could only access dark magic and fire. I examined the soul instead, which I could tell was quite alarmed by its circumstances. What if the other knew what I was, how I got here? I seemed to know how to absorb magic, and duplicate anything I studied, but what was it all for? I had no idea. Then I reached out to snuff the other presence inside the crystal, but froze right before I stomped the interloper out of existence. The magic eagerly came back to my call, and I pulled it all from the other being until it was powerless. I was angry, was the being trying to steal my power? The other soul was strong, but a mere candle compared to my bonfire. Its efforts to suborn my magic were laughable however. I reached out tentatively, and felt the other soul, and the darkness.

Dungeon Spawned by D.R. Rosier