"You held the endings back," he said, and he wasn't sure whether he was speaking to THE Mortis Cause or to the child anchoring it. "You treated every ending as a catastrophe to prevent. That's why it hurt so much. You were holding back something that wanted to happen, every moment, forever."
He reached into THE Mortis Cause and began the final transformation.
"Endings aren't catastrophes," he said. "They're beginnings that haven't finished arriving yet."
…!
THE Prime Cause of Apocalypse flowed from his Infinite Cause into THE Mortis Cause, not removing it but transforming it, the truth that destruction was the precondition for creation overwriting the truth that endings were simply endings. And as it transformed, the endings that Seo-yeon had been holding back stopped being things that needed holding back. They became transitions.
