Deep beneath the Dominion, in the lightless pits of PatalLok, the entity known as Bali opened a single, massive eye. The eye was a lake of boiling tar.
"The seal... a hairline fracture has appeared," Bali's voice echoed, causing the nearby necromantic ghouls to dissolve into ash. "The boy has tasted the Vanguard. He grows greedy. Good. Greed is the crack through which I shall enter."
The damru continued to beat in the distance, but for the first time in two thousand years, it was being drowned out by the sound of something breaking.