"And so you too, like the others, want to challenge my intelligence with yours. You want to help those men hunt me down and thwart my plans! You now know, and in part they know it too, and in all respects they will soon know, what it means to cut me off. They should have conserved their energies for other purposes more within their reach. Instead, they wanted to engage in a battle of wits against me - against me, who governed entire peoples, and who fought for them, and fought, hundreds of years before you were all born - and I faced them and attracted them in my trap. And you, their darling, are now flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood, branch of my lineage; for some time my generous source, then my companion and accomplice. You too, in your turn, will be able to take revenge in due time; because none of them will be able to oppose your wishes. But for the moment I must punish you for what you have done. You helped them against me, and now you will have to answer my every call. When my will tells you Come!, you will cross lands and seas to obey me. And to this end, so be it!"