Could be. [Answers some questions- opens some new ones. Just like every other theory he's got.] Not to discredit you at all; you'd know more than me, but I don't think it's something we'll ever have a concrete answer to unless it's studied in action-- which, obviously, none of us want to. Ever.

[Just in case he was thinking they would. The next part, though? That... that's so much harder to answer. Barry goes silent for some time, lips thinning as he recalls- everything.]

We arrived in Faerun with a plan. The Hunger was getting faster. Smarter. Escaping it at all was starting to become a near impossible feat- we needed more time, and you'd think we had that in spades, but... it was running out. Fast.

We'd discovered that what it had been tracking wasn't so much as it was the Light of Creation, and having picked up a couple tricks over the last hundred years, we... uh- [Wow yeah you know what this sounds way worse than he remembers?] Considering how long we'd been studying it in person, this is safer than it sounds, I swear. We broke it into six pieces and channeled each of those fragments into new, considerably powerful items. You've... seen one of them in action, before. When you first met the boys.


Which leads us into the biggest flaw of that plan.