First Entrance Post: From the world of Thra...

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A small, gnarled being enters Milliways. She is short, squat and dressed in a stained, wine-colored tunic. Curved, ram-like horns sweep out from the tangled grey hair hanging lankly from her head. One eye darts here an there. The other is gone. Only a burned out socket on that side of her head. She stops, puzzled. This is not where she is supposed to be. She had been about to enter her ruined home to see what she could salvage.

"What is this?" she asks in a gravely voice. "Where is this? This is not my home! Where has Aughra gotten to?"

Strange beings are scattered through the giant room. Not Gelfling. Not Podling. Not even Ur-Skek. She scowls as her eye looks over everything and is about to go back through the Door when...

...she catches sight of the viewing window.

"Dark moon of Thra!" she breathes as she gazes on the dying universe, more brilliant than a thousand Great Conjunctions. Almost in a trance, she walks to the window.

"This is something worth seeing!" Aughra says. "The End! The End of All!"

She chuckles. "Or the Beginning."

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"No, you were right the first time. It's the end." Three creatures in Halloween masks and costumes are close behind Aughra. One witch, one skeleton and one devil.

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Aughra turns around and scowls. She leans forward a bit and sniffs the three creatures. Small as Podlings but too thin.

Causally, Aughra pops her eye out of its socket to take a better look.

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"GIMME!" Lock holds out his hand for the eye.

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Aughra jerks her hand out of range. "Think you I'd sacrifice my last eye for that?" she sneers. She pops the eye back into her head with a sound like smacking lips.

"What are you? Not Gelfling. Not Podling." She smirks. "Certainly not Skeksis, Ur-ru or Ur-skek. What are you then? Hmmm?"

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"I'm Lock. A demon." He crosses his arms in front of him and smiles smugly.

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"Demon?" she sniffs. "Demons ruled the hearts of Skeksis. You don't look evil enough to rule a Skeksis." She snickers. "Rule a fezzgig, maybe."

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"I don't rule yet. Jack rules HalloweenTown. I don't really want to rule HalloweenTown. I just want the candy." Lock's a little liar is what he is. He's terrified of Jack, you see.

Quiet chants of "LIAR!" echo from behind Lock. So do snickers.

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Aughra chuckles indulgently. "Candy? What is candy? Whatever it is, Aughra doesn't have any."

She leans over the little demon. "Careful about ruling. Skeksis ruled, then fell. Those who rule live under an Eye that never blinks. Never rests. And will one day consume them."

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"You're really weird." This, coming from three little costumed tyrants.

Will wonders never cease.

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She throws back her head and cackles!

"Of course! I have seen three thousand Trine! How can Aughra not be weird?"

She pops her eye out again. It swerves around in the socket of her fingers. "The more an Eye sees, the more it knows. The more it knows, the stranger it becomes. Ha!"

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"You don't know anything." The Eye has never seen candy apparently.

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"Maybe not. Don't now everything for sure," she says. "Don't know what I would do if I knew everything. Hmph. Die probably. Might as well."

She raises her hand over her head to let her eye gaze on the catyclysm behind her. "Wouldn't mind dying if I knew that."

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The Triplets stare, confused.

Cat?

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Aughra frowns. "Go on. Aughra done talking."

She turns around and slips her eye back into its socket.

"Go find your candy. Aughra has none."

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The Triplets frown at Aughra. They mutter darkly and wander away.

"We'll be back!"

Oh, yes, they will be back. They want her eye. It's precious.

Maybe they'll bring her candy next time. XD