The Monster's smile slowly faded as her thoughts deepened.
Then there was the Primordial Lotus.
That troubled her more.
Even across the greatest Realms where Primordials walked and histories stretched backward through spans of time Earth possessed no language to measure, the Lotus had disappeared so completely that billions of years might pass without a single confirmed appearance. Some believed it extinct while others claimed it had withdrawn beyond the reach of creation itself.
A few old monsters argued that extinction was a meaningless word when speaking of something no one had ever truly understood in the first place.
Yet Phei had carried its Blessing within his Soul.
'All along!'
The Monster stared upward; the question rising within her genuinely offended her pride—
'How?'
She had probed him before— endlessly even.
She studied and obsessed over him to an extent she would never willingly quantify.
