[It sure is. But what is he if not bold? He wouldn't even dream of withholding the comparison. And so he begins, more seriously, but still very low:]
I'll tell you the Director's Cut of this story, the one no one else gets . . . so, feel honored! You see, the mirror from your story is an artifact of the Ancients, a race based on Halcandra eons ago. You know some about them from all that mess with Hyness! My ship is another one of those artifacts. I excavated and restored it after locating its ruins in a volcano on Halcandra itself, where I was living at the time. But the Lor wasn't the only artifact that turned up in my research. There was another one right there on Halcandra, the Master Crown, and it was said that that crown contained the power to control the universe.
[This isn't a story Magolor tells from this point of view often. It's one he tells as Kirby's story, featuring a mysterious villain who is never given a name by the time the tale ends. But since he can't get away with that here, he's much less grandiose about this telling than he usually is—and since Taranza definitely skimmed some details, he feels even more free to do the same. But the story still is what it is. There's no getting around the reality of what happened then.]
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I'll tell you the Director's Cut of this story, the one no one else gets . . . so, feel honored! You see, the mirror from your story is an artifact of the Ancients, a race based on Halcandra eons ago. You know some about them from all that mess with Hyness! My ship is another one of those artifacts. I excavated and restored it after locating its ruins in a volcano on Halcandra itself, where I was living at the time. But the Lor wasn't the only artifact that turned up in my research. There was another one right there on Halcandra, the Master Crown, and it was said that that crown contained the power to control the universe.
[This isn't a story Magolor tells from this point of view often. It's one he tells as Kirby's story, featuring a mysterious villain who is never given a name by the time the tale ends. But since he can't get away with that here, he's much less grandiose about this telling than he usually is—and since Taranza definitely skimmed some details, he feels even more free to do the same. But the story still is what it is. There's no getting around the reality of what happened then.]