They chittered happily.

It wasn’t quite the Question they needed asked but it was close enough. Got them one step closer to freedom. Now they just needed to get everyone in place so that when the Question was asked for real, they could hear the Answer and act.

Soon. So very soon.

And then they’d be really free and the wrongs they’d been tricked into doing would be corrected, deaths would be avenged.

They smiled and they laughed and the Worlds trembled at the sound.