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The sharp scratching stopped as vine apocalypse abated by the ceasing of noisy munching. One of the larger worms, holder of the psi-seed, emerged from the base of a tree as one would seep out a wet cloth. This tree as much as all others now wholly or partly bare suffered greatly that the hairworms coalesced. Smaller motes joined larger ones a white haze emerging from deflating earth. Land receding into pale tan and grey dust as the void left by life within it destroyed to favor themselves. The trees bleeding worms stood firm at first but screamed and creaked as their trunks cracked. Ones closest to the gate simply collapsed in a shower of disembodied limbs and shrapnel others fractured their top from their bottom and thundered into dust clouds.

The advancing white mass approached the single man-sized worm as its lessers rejoined. Floating above the dirt at first the quad-vaned worm with four flares for eyes bent upright then emerged a white coat from beneath. Mass reorganizing into the hollow robe with metal gauntlets it once was though sans its face. Weightless and unhurried in floating over to the discarded personage descending enough for a hand to appear below it plucking the objects upward. The face otherwise looking human moved into place as other robes began to appear as inner flares indicated arrivals of new Administratum.

The face inflated with a pressing from behind with a perhaps unbodied stretch of the skin-alike. Crystal eyeballs pushed eyelids forward into former holes to the inner void. One backward at first the Administratum pointed a hand toward its 'face' and whirled an eyeball to face the correct orientation. Nearly a dozen Administratum float soundlessly into view behind the first as trees creak and crumble behind them. Stragglers of worms floating from further reaches leap from dirt upward to join them. The lead Administratum examined its gauntlet hand which inverted replaced with a hand of human-like skin inflating like its face to bones it did not have.

The face smiled politely and waved absent an acknowledgment of Ulrich's demeanor. They couldn't become angry so it could not respond as such. It served no aim of its current purpose in any case. New Administratum behind it hollow face and white glove rather than gauntlets needed Jinhai to provide equipment later.

The lead administratum's voice a vapid sales demeanor to it no concern paid to the gravity of content, "Hello, tainted humankind. Did you get the message from Overbeing Myrkul's Vein? Tainted humankind, known as Sabbat and Camarilla, have declared war. Our overbeing Myrkul's Vein accepts your proposal. Do you wish to begin active combat today?"