The instant the words left his mouth, his own Akashic Civilizational Intent erupted out of him and flooded into the singularity.
It spun faster. Faster still, drinking down the Intent, winding tighter and tighter, and then, in the very next breath.
BOOM! CRACK!
Crystalline metallic cracks tore outward in every direction at once, and space itself split, permanently, the fracture racing through the chamber and up through the great tree and out across the drifting region beyond it, all of it accompanied by a sound like the world's own bones breaking clean through. And something began to leak from the singularity. Something that had been waiting on the other side of it!
A decrepit gray-blue finger pushed out of the spinning point.
It paused there a moment, turning, taking in the chamber, the nine Fifth Scale beings, the crystalline tree, the spreading fracture in the fabric of the world, the way a thing wakes and looks around a room it has just entered!
