"It is your duty," says Illyria, "to use that fear. Even here. Now." The child radiates power, nothing near the grandeur of a Primordial God-King, perhaps, but power nonetheless. That it would not think to use this power is unfathomable.

"With your strength you could do much." She pauses. This symbiote is a strange and curious creature simply by its own nature, but its complete lack of a desire to conquer as it so could makes it even more so. "But you choose not to."