Her abyssal eyes narrowed slightly.
"But who has so much time to know the true history of what happened back then? And more interestingly, why do they keep adding their own little flourishes? The version you know has drama, betrayal, clear heroes and villains. Reality was messier. Less satisfying. More... paradoxical."
…!
Oh.
Oh!
Noah felt his understanding shifting.
The stories of the Earliest Folds, the histories he'd been told…how much was truth and how much was narrative crafted for purposes he didn't understand?
The being before him had actually been there. Despite her fragmented memories, she was perhaps the most reliable source about what had truly occurred.
"What if I were to still assert," Noah said, testing, "that she is the resurgence of THE Living Order, and in a matter of days, she would fully awaken?"
Khor shook her head with the patience of someone explaining why water was wet.
