The Mother of All Things. He Who Shines Like Gold upon the Sea of Chaos. The Lord of Dreams that Terrify. The Golden Lord. The one who as dreamed years uncounted of regaining her form. Blackness beyond blackest pitch, deeper than the deepest night.

In short, the Lord of Nightmares.

And jellyfish-brained Gourry would never stop to consider the audacity of chasing down and laying hands on the ultimate Creator and Destroyer: as long as he has a chance of getting Lina back, nothing else matters. And perhaps it was that foolish sincerity moved a capricious deity...

Lina, Gourry, and Lina-possessed-by-LoN are all from the Slayers universe. Also, it's hard to do shadowing from a lower light source that isn't real... so I'm done fussing with it!