The deceiver was thoroughly convinced this time around. But he still smiled and said to the seer, "I am sure that you have a plan. So why don't you stop trying to scare me and tell me what the plan is?"
He was waiting for the seer to take this as an opportunity to show off his intelligence and wisdom, but the seer sighed and said, "I am at my wits' end."
This made the deceiver frown and say, "You can't be serious."
But the deceiver still looked despondent as he said, "My original plan was to outrun him. That should have been easy to do because we were faster than him and could always tell where he was coming from, so we could avoid him and stay ahead of him."
"But his speed suddenly increased, and he is now nearly twice as fast as we are. So we can't outrun him."
"Secondly, the two world guardians are flanking us right now and will have to fight them if we veer to the left or to the right. In that short time that they delay us, he could catch up to us."
