The last thread of the Curse tore free of Hvitrmarr's existence, and in the exact instant it left…Noah stretched that instant into infinity.
Everything froze.
The expelled obsidian hung motionless in its pillar far above. The endless blue paused mid-flood through nine reborn Organs! The falling snow beyond the White Steed's frame stopped in the sky like scattered stars, and within the vaulted stillness of a frozen moment, THE True Human Emperor simply floated there, and sensed his existence.
He did not count. He did not calculate! For once, he only felt.
And in that frozen moment, two presences moved.
They were the only things in all the stillness permitted to move, for they were fused into the very self doing the stretching, and Ruination and THE Infiniverse came to him simultaneously, without a single word, and hugged him.
