Something had shifted in how the air felt.
Since arriving in THE Braneworld Observable Existence, Noah had been aware of a subtle resistance in the ambient Infinity here, the specific quality of a medium that had not been calibrated for his kind of power. Not debilitating. Just present. A constant low-level friction between what he was and what this place expected its inhabitants to be.
The Infinite Existential Empowerment dissolved that friction entirely.
The surging river of connection between him and Ubergulden Adelheid blazed with visible luminescence, and through that river the Infinity of THE Braneworld stopped resisting him and started flowing toward him the way it flowed toward beings who belonged here.
He breathed easier. He perceived farther. The flows of information that Infinity touched in the surrounding space began returning feedback to him with the generosity of a medium that had just decided to cooperate.
