"IT IS MY OPINION THAT WITHOUT A GOVERNING POWER, PEOPLE WILL TOO EASILY TURN TO THE DESPICABLE ACTS WHICH WE HAVE ALREADY OBSERVED." She looked at the bodies of the ruby-thieves.
She then listened to the story of Alteez's birth, hearing some parallels to her own. Though Ludicia seemed to have been pulled from nothingness by an ideal, she had been pulled by a person. Ludicia's gaze turned to the skull as Alteez picked it back up. Then the two moved across the room until they came to the stairs of the altar. Ludicia unwrapped her legs which had until then been bent up under her floating body. As they touched the floor, her very form seemed to twitch and re-shape. The goddess shrank until she was the size of Alteez, a black cloak forming around her body. In place of a head, there was an antilope skull which turned slowly to where Alteez was standing.
A moment of silence passed as she waited to see what Alteez would do next.