nobody's ready for days like these

"I think this is a pretty good offering," DreamXD said, dropping to the ground. Foolish grinned back at it, wary in case it had another one of its opinion swings and took the look as a threat. It patted him on the head. He made a heroic effort not to grimace. "What is this, one hundred souls in the past six months? That's impressive, I'm impressed. Maybe you're not as weak as I thought.""Wow, admitting fault? That's kind of-- that's progress, isn't it? Almost like you can talk to me as something like an equal. Not as an equal, obviously, since you're so powerful and strong and able to kill me with a word or possibly thought, but something closer to one, maybe, like one step below you on the, uh, glittery staircase to the heavens--""You've earned yourself a treat," it declared, and Foolish's majestic golden wings wilted against his back.