Gate of Memoirs/Confrontation (Fates of the Fallen)

Tevarius disagrees with the Queen Mother, N'an-Wang-Mu.
Episode 7—Wheel of Fate—
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Source Hall"	Music: "Source Hall"
 	
*The snarling and hissing grows louder with every crash of thunder.
*Tevarius runs his hands through his hair in a fit of pique, caught between the advancing Naga and a seemingly indestructible door.
 	
*Tevarius: Should've known the *Queen Mother* wouldn't leave her front gate unprotected...
*Tevarius: We don't have time to be figuring this out, enchantment or not.
 	
*Sero-Anya: Tev! They're coming!
 	
*Naga: *HiiiSSSS!!!*
 	
*Tevarius: Sero, behind me! Now!
 	
*The first scrabbling Naga to reach the top did so with a nasty grin as it reached out to flense and maul.
*Until a sharp whistle cutting through the air snapped the Naga out of its bloodthirst,
*and a sudden blast of jade-green energy vaporized the creature on contact.
*The Naga swarm barely had time to react before the energy careens off their downed brethren, lancing down and through their ranks.
*The swarm cries out in anger and confusion as the weaker ones are blasted apart.
 	
*Sero-Anya: Eek!
 	
*Tevarius: (Is that...charged energy?)
*Tevarius keeps his eyes trained on the survivors, his own bolts crackling within his fist.
*There was no telling if the chain lightning ripping through their ranks was a trap.
 	
*Naga: GGhhrr...
*Naga: Mgvulgtlagln l' ah ymg'...!
*Unable—or unwilling—to cross that arbitrary threshold of certain death, the swarm recedes and slithers back down the stone steps.
 	
*Sero-Anya: Tev...I don't like this...
*Sero-Anya: How long do we have to stay out here?
 	
*Tevarius: We're lucky to be alive, I suppose...
*Tevarius: There's not much else we can do if the Queen Mother refuses our entry into her do—
 	
*The ornate doors to the Pagoda begin to glow brightly, and arcane symbols in Southern script flash across its surface.
*With a tiny click, the entrance hall glides into view as the enormous doors pull back almost effortlessly.
*If Tevarius and Sero-Anya are slack-jawed at the occurrence, it was more due to the fact...
 	
*...that a radiant, *glowering* entity was floating before them, displeasure plain on her face.
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Palmyna Legend"	Music: "Palmyna Legend"
 	
*At the very least, the Queen Mother was civil enough to invite the ragged duo into the Pagoda.
*Her visage was now devoid of any emotion, a stark contrast to her annoyance before.
*Those pale eyes never flickered between the bewildered faces of her guests, as if she were deep in meditation...or simply unable to see.
*N'an-Wang-Mu: So, the Great Sage sent you here. With...
*She peers down at a minutely trembling Sero-Anya, who avoids her gaze and shuffles behind Tevarius.
 	
*Tevarius: ...This is Sero-Anya. The Great Sage believes she is the reincarnation of Juno-Seto.
*Tevarius: After the incident at the Crystalline Spire, she was found wandering around the Southern Plateau.
 	
*N'an-Wang-Mu's contemplative, half-lidded stare unsettles Tevarius.
*N'an-Wang-Mu: Yes...I have heard of that.
 	
*Her stoic demeanor breaks slightly as her brows furrow, and she raises her head toward the soaring ceiling of the Pagoda.
*N'an-Wang-Mu: Zeruiah mentioned her research into the Stargates—those ancient portals of communication to the vast universe beyond our own.
*N'an-Wang-Mu: I never expected her endeavors to be successful, much less the arrival of a...foreign deity.
*N'an-Wang-Mu: But none of that compares to the fact Zeruiah took her in at all.
*N'an-Wang-Mu: Ahh, her daughter had changed her so. Indeed, Eirwen gave the Sage a heart.
*N'an-Wang-Mu: But Zeruiah was undone by her own kindness.
 	
*Tevarius: What do you mean?
 	
*N'an-Wang-Mu: The foreigner brought the Ravaging Void to us, did she not?
 	
*A sudden pain blinks into Sero-Anya's mind at the mention of the Void.
 	
*Sero-Anya: It was...mine...
 	
*Sero-Anya shakes her head, confused and distressed at the growing frequency of these fractured memories.
 	
*Sero-Anya: (Ugh...Again?)
Music: "Sky Fort" 	Music: "Sky Fort"
 	
*N'an-Wang-Mu: Listen carefully, visitors. 
*N'an-Wang-Mu: I thank you for coming to me with news of my old friend...and of the Naga.
*N'an-Wang-Mu: However...lands beyond my own are none of my concern.
*N'an-Wang-Mu: The Southern Plateaus of N'an-Xin have survived all this simply by not involving ourselves in the affairs of others.
*N'an-Wang-Mu: Those who upset the balance must be the ones to put it right.
*The Queen Mother's cold gaze shifts to the trembling form of Sero-Anya.
 	
*Tevarius: What...?! Juno- She-
*Tevarius: How could you be so *callous*?!
*Tevarius: Does Zeruiah not mean anything to you?
*Tevarius: Does the fate of another goddess—one who protected her adopted world—not move you?!
 	
*Sero-Anya: Tev!
 	
*N'an-Wang-Mu: What impudence...
*N'an-Wang-Mu: It seems that you need a lesson in respect...unruly spirit.