He turned to Noah.
"Countless Lifeforms lived here. They had no part in the love, or the disapproval, or the war. They were simply present in an Observable Existence whose most powerful beings could not control their emotions, and that was sufficient to end them.
The lovers were not villains. The third was not, in its own understanding, a villain either. None of them set out to destroy an Observable Existence. They were simply beings who held great power and could not govern what they felt, and at their tier, the inability to govern what you feel is not a personal failing. It is an extinction event."
The terminal infinity burned across the dying expanse.
"This is the lesson the Swords of Existence take from Chernobyl," Sir William said.
