Noah stood beneath his four burning Letters, tracking the grand flow of his changed power, and felt something blaze at the far edge of his existence. Emotion and mania, tangled together, burning hot through the bond of a heart he kept inside him. He sighed, and looked across THE Infiniverse toward a distant dark region where a manic woman had retreated to be alone with everything she felt.
He sent another body to her, and kept measuring here.
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The region she had chosen was one of the dark ones.
Rivers of obsidian Primordial Source flowed thick through an endless realm of shadow, black currents moving slow and heavy through a darkness that had no ceiling and no floor. Light existed here only where the rivers caught it, faint gleams sliding along the obsidian like something breathing under the surface.
Emotive sat on one of the rivers, hugging her knees.
