Conchobar says, “It will be some time till we can all sit and talk like this. Now that we have destroyed the leaders of the human resistance.”

Lugh says, “Our next few moves will be important. Without a doubt the only people who could have allowed the resistance to work so well would be Aoife and the rest of the traitors, and now that we have annihilated the vast majority of them the humans out to become incredibly disorganized.

In that chaos we will use all the might we have to destroy all of their little sects around our empire and put an end to all of this. We will remove the beasts who have been waiting to pounce on our weakness.”

Medb then says, “Don’t forget you still have to find some time to spend with Péatra.”

Lugh makes an annoyed face and Medb follows it up and says, “You don’t like the new wife I chose for you, I thought she was an earnest cutie, very much your type.”

Lugh says, “She constantly avoids looking at me, and it feels like for some strange reason she seems afraid to converse with me even though I am acting normal.”

Conchobar says, “You have a rather fierce reputation it makes sense for the girl to be scared.”

“I don’t feel like marrying a woman scared of me. What a horrid thing for you to put her through Medb.”

Medb says, “I consider anyone marrying you to be a form of self-suicide, but Péatra happens to be one of the many mentally distorted women in the empire who somehow think you’re a god. If you give her a smile and a few compliments I am sure she will fall to you completely.

And due to her age I am sure you will have an active bed life and spawn many little children for me to experiment-, I dote on.”

“You really are a freak?”

“I am no such thing! It is just that any child you have is likely to inherit the aspects of a behemoth wonderbeast, and if that child were to inherit aspects of Péatra who is a Phoneix beastkin, I would have one of the greatest subjects to experiment on in the world! I could fully unlock the power trapped in the Tuatha Dé Dannan’s blood!”

Conchobar swats her on the face, as she drools over and says, “Down girl.”

Lugh sighs, and then says, “Let’s hope my dear departed wife doesn’t curse me with impotence before that happens.”

Conchobar says, “My sister is many things but she isn’t selfish enough to get in the way of our plans like that; oh god she would wouldn’t she? She will probably find a way to scarp herself from the underworld and curse the entire empire to destruction?”

Lugh says, “You get my point.”

Medb says, “I don’t like you both disparaging my best friend in such a way, she maybe vindictive, manipulative, vengeful, and prideful, but only to her enemies and woman who try to talk to Lugh; You know what I think we should pray to Danu every night from now on for protection.”

“Agreed,” Both Lugh and Conchobar say.

Medb then follows up and says, “But still we need another heir to Gorias, since at this point it is all but confirmed that we will make Setanta the next high king, and we cannot allow the seat of Gorias to fall to one of the other houses.”

They all stare up at the moon then Lugh asks, “Conchobar are you truly ok with Setanta taking the seat of high king?”

“Lugh didn’t I already tell you for our plan to work we will need a strong man in the seat of king after me, and we got extremely lucky with your son. He has all the character, and power of my father, but also has wisdom and incite that Fergus lacks.

He is all but perfect for our empire's next ruler and me having a child would just become a hindrance to that. So even if we have to spread unsavoury rumours so that people think I am impotent I do not care as long as it works out in the end.”

Medb says, “But I know how much you have always wanted to have kids, are you sure you still want to give that up? I am sure a child born from you could also become a prodigy.”

Lowering his head, he says, “No, I don’t think I could force such a path on that child, I know how it feels to be constantly compared to a hero and if you can’t live up to those expectations if feels like you have just died.

I don’t want any child of mine whether boy or girl to feel like they have died due to me trying to mould them into another Setanta. Besides I already have an adorable Nephew, and Scáthach's daughter is also rather sweet.”

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Medb says, “I know isn’t she the most pretty little goddess the world has ever since? It is like she is a glass orb that reflects all of the beauty in the world.”

Lugh says, “Scáthach barely lets me see her.”

Conchobar says, “It’s because she doesn’t want Setanta going anywhere near her, which I agree about.”

Medb says, “We don’t need your little future manwhore of a son going anywhere near here.”

Lugh says, “Things like that aren’t easy to predict. Before you became so open you used to have your face in books reading up about wonderbeasts. You what I would even call cute.”

“Hey, you said I was ugly back then!”

“I said the shy look on your face made you look uglier, never that you were innately ugly.”

Conchobar says, “How did my sister even handle you.”

Lugh responds, “I don’t know what you mean, you guys are the weird ones.”

Medb says, “You really are an annoying man, but I do very much enjoy our conversation.”

Lugh says, “I concur.”

Conchobar says, “I am sure there are many in our empire who have conversations like this. That is why we make the effort to protect them, because right now even if I have to drag my name in the dirt I must remove the dirt that lays within our empire.”

“It seems my wife influenced you far more than any one of us.”

“She often did show me the records of the fall of the kingdom in the past. The greatest of empires which were infallible by any outside enemy, always grew complacent and eventually, they fell from within.

The internal affairs of a country are what will decide how it will continue into the future. Our current culture of gluttony is the first of those major issues. If we keep eating like beasts we will end up with a great amount of pregnancy incongruency which will lead to our extinction.

But worse than that are our feelings of superiority towards the humans which has been popping up more and more. It feels like every day since we stopped using them to recoup our numbers a culture of genocide for them has been born. Which hasn’t been helped by the actions of one man.”

Conchobar gives Lugh a glare but he says, “I needed to kill all those people as an act of demoralization, they had to die.”

Medb laughs a bit, and says, “I agree with Lugh on this. Our views are humans are beneath us but not without value, if their death can lead to a greater benefit in the future we should kill them, and regardless of that they died on our soil so they should be happy.”

Conchobar says, “You’re starting to sound like a fanatic with that last bit, I don’t see how them dying on our soil made it better. And whilst I understand your point Lugh it still came at an inopportune time.”

Sighing Conchobar says, “Humans are inferior to us, on average they will never be our equals. But we don’t kill animals simply due to that fact, we need humans to understand their inferiority, and as the superior race, we must care and guide them out of their destructive ways.

We hold power but we must hold equal responsibility, and we must create a world where both races understand their places. The humans serve us, and we allow them to live fruitful lives.

For now, we still need to use the humans as slaves to grow our empire quickly, but soon the transition will start and for it to go smoothly we must remove the current view of humans, which we will need the power of the four kings to do.

So just like how one must clean their house to prevent disease, we must do the same to our empire to keep it safe from ourselves. We do not simply want to be a story of a great power that once existed in the future, but a story of a seed which continued to grow into a far greater empire.”

Lugh says, “Both Gorias and Murias have implemented widespread education plans to push our agenda, the issue would be convincing both the house of Éire and the house of Laoch to join us in implementation.”

Conchobar says, “Forcing them to help us might make our plans open, and would probably cause people to look into what we plan and cause dissent so we must be careful.”

Lugh says, “The house of Laoch are warriors at heart, and will bow to any who they seem as stronger than them, the way they treat Fergus as a god is already a sign of this. I am sure Setanta will be able to get the future king of Findias to bow to him.”

Medb says, “The house of Éire is filled with a bunch of greedy bastards, and if my future research and beauty are put on the table I am sure I could wrap them around my fingers, especially the next head I have already had that child smithing with me.”

Lugh under his breath mutters, “The depths of your depravity know no bounds.”

“Considering your future wife wasn’t even born when you married your first one I don’t want to hear that from you.”

Conchobar giggles and says, “Don’t insult each other you both will essentially depend on each other, especially for the coming battles, especially with our invasions into the eastern continent.”

Lugh says, “Is Bricriu's plan almost finished?”

“Yes, he has spent the last decade slowly spreading poison throughout their land and within the next five or so years their kingdom will crumble, and we will move in for the win. Without a doubt, this will make Bricriu a hero of our people.”

Both Medb and Lugh make noises of disgust.

“Ok let me hear it.”

Lugh says, “That man is the living definition of a double-edged sword, whether he chooses to build something up or crash it down for fun is completely based on his mood. I am certain that he has done heaps of unnecessary actions within the continent for his own enjoyment, and would even interrupt our plans to continue to find this enjoyment.”

Medb says, “He is a man overloaded with desire, and lust. I have seen many men and he by far has the deepest depths to his depravity, yet none of it is sexual, which makes it far less direct, and far more destructive.”

“I know how you feel but put your grievances aside and accept his help for now. Right now you both have other roles to do.”

Lugh says, “I will intensify Setanta’s training, and get him in as many battles as possible from now on.”

Medb says, “I will continue my research into ways to use wonderbeast fauna, and the true potential of us beastkin.”

“I thank you both, and I ask that you die for this project. Everything we are outside of this has no value to us anymore, and we must commit our souls, minds and bodies to this from now on.”

Conchobar raises a glass and the other two follow after him, and then he says, “To our last night of peace.”

“To our last night of peace,” Lugh and Medb say.

They all drink their glasses and as they do the celebration through Emain Macha comes to an end.