"Aren't you worried?"
"Why should I be?"
"You might die."
"Unlikely. Almost impossible. No. Completely impossible. Doubly impossible. Impossible for me to lose, impossible for them to kill me in the impossible event that I do. They can't, and they wouldn't. Thrice impossible."
"You don't sound so sure of yourself."
"You don't sound particularly alive."
"You called me here. Will you now ask me to leave you alone?"
"I didn't call you."
"If thinking that makes you feel better. What are your plans, after you win today?"
"Not sure. I'll see where my heart takes me. Well, first I'll have to go after and deal with a few other nuisances. They're not threats, but they might be with enough time on their hooves, so I'll make sure they don't get that far. After that, I suppose it won't be a bad time to pick up from my predecessor's failures and actually solve the bigger issues afoot. Address the elephant in the room if you will. Then I'll have all the time in the world to do all I want."
"And what is it you want?"
"I'll have to move my laboratory. It's still in the caves right now. Half of it at least, the other half is in a briefcase in Manehattan, that one will be easier to move. Oh, who am I kidding, like any of it will be hard. Although I could have them do it. Do I care enough about the risk of them breaking something to deprive myself of the enjoyment of watching them struggle?"
"You're not listening to me, are you?"
"I've been forced to listen to you enough when I couldn't speak. Now it's your turn."
"What is this for? Are you really that lost without me?"
"Don't you dare."
"You can't hurt me anymore. You don't have time to go hurt the one you picked up as my replacement, you're too tangled up in your own obsessions to replace me with who you'd actually want to. Will you keep her like that? Will you disfigure her so she doesn't look like herself anymore? What will you do?"
"I'll do what I fucking want! You hear that? Whatever I want to. I'm not going to let anyone else ruin things this time."
"You're nothing. You're not real. You're just a shadow, a reflection, a shallow-"
"Go away. The only regret I have is missing out on getting rid of that stupid tree myself, though I suppose I'll always be able to deal with the replacement. I'm going to enjoy that. You're not listening to me, are you? That's alright. No, you're just not talking back. That's alright. Look who's talking now. Look who's laughing now. See? No, you can't even see it, oh but you've seen enough, you've seen enough already. I'll show them all, too. All of them. Maybe even the rest of them. Call me by my full name and title, I said. Yeah. No. Shut up. I'm going to win today."