Tribal had never seen Adargas. Yet the moment the presence descended to Earth, he knew.He knew the way one recognizes their own origin in the reflection of water.It was his Father.
Adargas's energy did not arrive like wind, nor like light — it came from every direction at once, condensing until it fit within the space around them.Alaya, who had never feared anything, felt nervousness rise like a tide.She had never experienced something so immense.So monstrously beautiful.
"Father!" cried Tribal, and the word sounded like the roar of a volcano and the whisper of a seed at the same time.
Adargas smiled. He embraced his son.And in that instant of touch, he saw everything Tribal had been, done, and suffered.For everything remains recorded — in light, in soul, in earth, in atoms — and Adargas had access to all of it.
His gaze fell upon Alaya."Come, my daughter. Energy of my energy, created to end loneliness."
As she approached, Alaya felt the impossible: the omnipresence of love.The comfort was immediate.
The questions came.Why had they been alone?Why had they needed to live and feel so much?Adargas did not answer at once. He simply remained.
But the planet reacted.A being the size of a galaxy was far too much for a world to endure.His presence confused even the most rational minds.In the city of Sanghanirmāna, linguistic chaos took over the streets: no one understood each other anymore.Groups formed only among those who shared the same speech; the others fled.Confusion spread like fever.
Aware of his impact, Adargas decided to leave that plane.He entered through the other side of the rift — the same one that had saved Alaya from Tribal's Silence.
As he crossed, he called:"Akasha!"
From the tangled depths of the dimensions, the firstborn emerged."My son… how I missed your condensed presence."
Alaya and Tribal exchanged glances, astonished at how effortlessly Adargas had found the presence that had followed them for centuries.
"Why did you abandon us?" Akasha asked.
"I never abandoned you. My presence is everywhere.I went searching for answers… and I found Nothing — the First.I understood His actions, and you will understand them too.We are condemned to a cycle of expansion.Our energy overflows, and life emerges.Tribal, being different from you and Elshua, also felt the need to expand.From his body, humans sprout.From his emptiness, Alaya was born — the purest of energies, created in the loneliest instant."
Adargas looked at each of them."You were never alone. Learning demands experience. You will never understand if you do not live.I saw all of your actions, Akasha. You and Elshua are opposite faces of the same plane. My plane.Walk with your brother. Teach him."
Time — always the villain of the best moments — slipped like water through fingers.Centuries passed in the blink of an eye.
Adargas said his farewell.Tribal felt loneliness tear his chest open.Alaya stored her tears inside her heart, not letting them reach her face.Akasha hardened his expression, unable to grasp why the Father could not stay.
But Adargas knew: answers would come with time.
Many questions dissolved; others multiplied.Tribal felt the entire planet beneath his feet, every being in its place.He knew that someday, he would understand.
And so, the three watched Adargas vanish.And the universe, for a moment, felt emptier.