They stood on THE Loyal Reach and watched the other body work.
It hung in the dark beyond THE Infiniverse, bound in countless chains that ran back to the immensity behind it, and it had carried that immensity through THE Undefined Gaps for a little while now, dragging an entire Observable Existence the way a beast of burden drags a mountain. For all that time the work had been a kind of suffering, his skin rupturing and his bones breaking under a weight no body was built to pull, the radiant flames of Persevere and Exelissomai mending each ruin grander than before only so the ruin could happen again. Endless. Brutal. The price he had set for himself on purpose!
It was different now.
His Intent surrounded that body, and his Osmontian Source Infinity moved through it in deep cerulean currents, and the body raised its leg to take a step.
