The Unquestioned Loyalty
Aeren pulls his hand away from Art and looks at both Art and Swapn carefully. He notices something profound. Swapn does not ask anything. There is no hesitation. No doubt. No questioning. Only acceptance.
Aeren turns his gaze directly toward Swapn. Swapn looks like a small pet—one that follows its master under any condition, without hesitation or reservation. Loyal. Complete. Whole. Aeren smiles faintly and speaks:
"Swapn, you did not question me."
The smile stays on his face. An expression appears—controlled, deliberate, calculated. Aeren can control all emotion within emptiness, every nerve of emptiness itself. He can manipulate every feeling, every response, every display of sentiment. Yet he still chooses to show emotion.
He understands something clearly in this moment:
Even if one reaches anywhere, even if one ascends beyond everything, without emotion a being loses care for itself. Without feeling, a being loses the thread that connects it to others.
So Aeren decides to use his own emptiness of emotion. It is not genuine—it cannot be, not for him—yet it is emotion others can see. And even then, it looks genuine to those who witness it.
The strangest part is this: Without emotion, people cannot live properly, cannot think clearly, cannot even notice the world around them. They stop seeing others. They stop seeing anything at all. They become hollow, empty, untethered. Aeren understands this now—has always understood it on some level. And so he allows the expression to remain—not for himself, but for those who still need to see him, who need to believe that something within him still cares.
Aeren realizes this long ago, yet he does not care much about it and never thinks deeply about it. Even after understanding that he is chasing nothing from the very beginning, even after realizing that he once had no genuine emotion toward his pursuit, Aeren never truly wants to reach anywhere—not for happiness, not for connection, not for love. He only controls. Within himself, he controls all organs, all blood circulation, even his own heartbeat. He commands his body absolutely.
Because of that control, even death cannot reach him. He is beyond its touch. He is beyond everything.
Swapn looks at Aeren immediately. Confusion flickers across his painted features—and then happiness rises within him like dawn. He has never truly doubted. His loyalty is absolute. Swapn answers awkwardly, struggling to form words through the emptiness-wave:
"No. I don't have any questions for you, Master. We are one to begin with. I am you, and you are me. A dream and reality together define nothingness."
Aeren nods at Swapn slowly. He does not reply with words. The nod is enough.
The Opening
Then Aeren speaks again through the wave of emptiness:
"Well… let's end our conversation here. Come within me."
Art and Swapn look at Aeren. They look at one another—exchanging something wordless, something understood. Before them, Aeren's form opens deliberately—like an ocean opening its depths, like cosmic cloths unfolding, vast and silent and infinite. Nothingness does not resist. It yields. And the moment waits, ready to close into unity.
The Absorption Begins
Aeren notices the endless nothingness surrounding him and begins absorbing it within himself deliberately. As Aeren absorbs nothingness, nothingness begins to shatter from the inside out. The endless body of nothingness starts breaking apart from the small portion Aeren draws into himself. And something behind nothingness starts to reveal itself—something vast, something ancient, something that has always been there, waiting.
That presence alone—even its faint impact—is enough to almost shatter the entire nothingness. The void trembles. The structure of emptiness weakens.
Aeren sees it.
He accelerates. He absorbs nothingness faster and faster, pulling it into himself with increasing urgency. His gaze pauses upon nothingness—and that pause alone is enough to threaten its complete collapse. The cause is simple, profound:
Pause is the true End. And nothingness is only a replication of that Pause.
Aeren absorbs faster before Pause can fully shatter nothingness, before the fundamental structure breaks irreparably. Nothingness accepts its own destruction as truth and surrenders.
Aeren continues absorbing—faster, deeper, pulling infinity into his being. Then his body stops abruptly. Half of Aeren becomes still, frozen in place. He cannot move even slightly from that half. The other half continues absorbing nothingness without stopping, without hesitation. The paused half does not resist. It does not release. It remains frozen—absorbing, holding, refusing to let go of nothingness.
Aeren exists in contradiction: One half moving toward completion, the other half locked in absolute stillness. And nothingness breaks itself apart around him—unable to decide whether to end or to remain. The moment stretches, silent, on the edge between existence and absolute pause.
The Nature of Pause
In Pause, nothing moves. No soul can move. No life dies. No dead body decays. Nothing changes. There is no growth. No aging. No becoming. Pause is endless, just like nothingness—but unlike nothingness, Pause does not dissolve anything.
In Pause, there is no dissolution and no creation. Even time freezes solid. Pause has no size. No direction. No expansion. Pause is not endless. Pause is Endless—a different kind of endless, one that contains rather than expands.
Pause is the end of endlessness, and endlessness begins from Pause. Anything that touches Pause becomes still. Pause only becomes Pause and follows its own rule:
No movement. No growth. No realization. No meaning.
Everything can exist, but nothing can do anything. There is no sight observing the rule of Pause. There is no observer. There is no act of observation. This is the end of rule and the beginning of rule—because even rules are paused. Everything is paused.
The Revelation
Aeren exists between Truth and Lie. They look the same at first glance, yet Truth dominates nothingness itself in ways that are invisible. Pause is the cause of Truth. Nothingness creates future so that the present can function everywhere within it. Pause does not create anything. Pause does not need to.
Pause is present. If you stand in Pause, you remain exactly as you are. No movement. No aging. No realization. You remain forever—like stone. Like crystal. And there is no one to move the stone, because everyone else is also stone. That is how Pause dominates nothingness. Pause does not need creation to feel Truth. Pause is Truth itself. Nothing can change. Nothing can escape.
Because of Pause, the creation of nothingness happens. And after nothingness, cosmic creation appears within emptiness. Pause exists behind all reasons. In Pause, nothing can escape. Nothing can move away.
That is why Nothingness is born—because Nothingness stays away from Pause. Nothingness exists only because it flees absolute Pause. And by fleeing, Nothingness loses absolute Pause. Now, Pause reaches again. Pause pauses the entire nothingness itself—halting its dissolution, freezing its expansion.
Aeren stands between Pause and Nothingness. And he begins absorbing both sides deliberately. Pause. And Nothingness. The two fundamental forces.
He thinks of this from the very beginning—from the moment he realizes that Nothingness is a lie, and Pause is the truth he sees long ago but does not believe at the time. He reached Pause before in his inner explorations, yet he turned away from it, afraid of what it meant. Now he decides. He decides to become the thing itself. He does not allow anything to exist beyond him.
He becomes beyond himself. He lets both Pause and Nothingness exist within him. And inside himself, he decides what they are allowed to be. Because of this, nothing can stop Aeren. Even stopping exists within him now. Nothingness, which once escapes Pause, no longer escapes him.
Pause, which freezes everything, no longer freezes him alone. Instead—Pause and Nothingness enter endless circulation inside Aeren. Like two black holes orbiting each other endlessly—never collapsing, never escaping, never ending. And Aeren remains at the center—not as lie, not as truth, but as the one who contains both. The equilibrium. The balance. The Truth of Endless.
The Absorption
Aeren begins absorbing both—Pause and Nothingness. His body expands into nothingness and into Pause at the same time. Aeren takes his place between them, becomes the medium through which they relate. With every moment, it becomes easier. The barriers dissolve. The resistance fades.
He expands beyond endless, because endlessness itself becomes a creation within Aeren—an Endless of Truth. A truth that transcends all previous understanding.
That truth is something nothing can see, nothing can imagine, nothing can even think about. To reach toward that Endless Truth is like trying to think beyond nothingness. Only humans ever think of nothingness. No one can think beyond nothingness, because endlessness traps thought itself.
Nothingness exists as part of everything—and everything escapes into it. That is why no one can see beyond the thought of Nothingness. But Aeren sees Pause. And through Pause, he knows that Nothingness is an escape—just like himself once was. Nothingness is not the real thing he seeks. It never was.
When Aeren realizes that Nothingness is the exact opposite of Pause, he understands something fundamental:
Both must exist together. That is how he fuses Pause and Nothingness within himself.
Aeren knows—if he succeeds, he becomes a being for whom even thinking about Nothingness and Pause no longer applies. He becomes a Truth of Endlessness that nothing can reach, nothing can deny, and nothing can escape. And Aeren continues absorbing—not to end everything, but to contain what even Endlessness cannot hold.
The Transformation
Aeren watches as Pause and Nothingness begin entering him without him even noticing the exact moment it starts. Inside Aeren, Pause and Nothingness already begin to dominate each other, struggling over Truth, fighting for supremacy. And Aeren accepts them both completely. He takes the endlessness of Pause and the endlessness of Nothingness into himself without resistance.
He lets them travel within him, lets them clash, lets them shape one another. Aeren reaches beyond Endless. He reaches the Truth of Endless. And Aeren becomes the Endless of Truth.
When Aeren opens his eyes, he sees himself. Only himself. Everything exists within him. Nothing exists beyond him. Nothing remains except himself—like endless nothingness and eternal pause. Like the foundation and the infinite. Like the beginning and the never-ending.
Aeren—
Truth of Endless.
Aeren sees the Truth of Endless. And after seeing it, he begins to shape it deliberately. He shapes Pause and Nothingness within himself with conscious intention.
He shapes them into two endless stars. The two stars orbit one another endlessly—never colliding, never separating, forever locked in dance. Within each star, universes exist. Within those universes, stars form. Then planets. Then living beings. Then humans—and the rules they follow. The civilizations they build. The dreams they pursue.
The two stars are born from Pause and from Nothingness. They are not separate from Aeren. They are symbols of Aeren's Endless Truth. They are manifestations of what he has become. The stars have no end. They have no fixed shape. And because they are shapeless, they are impossible to fully describe. They shine too brightly. They burn with impossible light.
So Aeren names them—
The Two Stars of Endless.
And with that name, creation does not begin. It simply continues, forever orbiting within the Truth that Aeren becomes. The two stars spin endlessly, containing infinite universes, infinite possibilities, infinite becoming.
And within those stars, Art and Swapn exist—no longer separate from Aeren, no longer distinct entities, but part of the greater whole. Part of the Endless Truth. Part of the dance between Pause and Nothingness.
Aeren stands at the center of it all—the axis around which everything rotates. The stillness within motion. The motion within stillness. The lie that became truth. The truth that contains all lies.
And the creation continues. Forever. Endlessly. Truthfully.
The Two Stars of Endless orbit on.