[ Matt can't blame Amos for asking the question. It's literally the first thing he thought of while he was gushing blood on the cavern floor. But he's had some time to consider, and a certain number of his whirling thoughts have percolated and begun to settle into hypotheses. (Others, meanwhile, clatter around in his head without landing in any one place. Like that dog Estinien Wyrmblood. ]

I think ... that might be true, [ he allows. ] Sufficiently weaken the tether, and the entity might not have a way through into this plane. Or might not have enough energy to be a thing that acts on her own.

But even if that is true, I think there might be some downsides. Like ... first and foremost being, we probably shouldn't be killing other Aions when we need to be growing our power to do what needs to be done. A few more've come through since we got here, but we're still in pretty limited supply.

And then there's the energy question. Like, what I've been wondering is--so the Regent said the Innocence manifested because of the Pleroma. And that seems to be true, though from what I saw, there's some Kenoma powering her too. But maybe it's specifically because there are more of us now, and we've been--some of us--have been getting more powerful. Paul and his healing, me and ... I can do at least some new things now. I wonder if this is an inevitable byproduct of Aions getting more powerful.