>Frown.
>"And humility still escapes you, as does intelligence."
>Shake head.
>"But I shall still help you. It's clear that your karma needs a good cleansing, and when I am through with you, the Yama is going to give you all kinds of extra credit. I am first going to brand your soul, woman. I'm sure you don't understand what that means, but keep it in mind. Then...well, words can't describe what I'm going to spend the rest of your natural life doing to you. Let's just say you're going to get to see organs you never new that you had, and feel sensations that are going to make you reflect upon your time in Hokkai as a time in absolute paradise. There will be no being in the universe more miserable than you, I assure you."
>"And sooner or later, you're going to perish. Perhaps from age, perhaps from deprivation, perhaps because I am eager to move on. And I can see the smug little grin inside your head, thinking that once this lifetime is over, all will be done. No, it won't be that easy, I'm afraid. I am going to follow that brand on your soul, and don't think I won't do it, and I will find your next incarnation. And then I shall lead her into every vice imaginable. Don't pretend you'll be too strong-willed for it, we both know how easy it is to mislead and deceive someone into sin. And oh dear, you will be lead into them all. Theft, adultery, rape, betrayal, murder, cannibalism, genocide...You next life will be very bleak indeed.
>"And, when all that is over, I'm sure you'll understand what your karma will look like. Perhaps the life that follows will be that of a slug or a cockroach. And I will find that vermin you have become, and I will squish it. And I will continue to do so, until you've become something palatable, upon which I will devour it."
>"And someday, someday you'll again regain a sapient form. And I will kidnap you. And raise you as my own, in an illusion of love and caring. Until I strangle you for your eighteen birthday.
>"And so on. I imagine that you understand the basics now. Twice I've offered you mercy and twice you've spurned it, bringing catastrophe. You, my dear proud fool, are going to become the stuff of mythology."
