In the Early Veiled Shore, where golden sands stretched beneath skies of crystalline perfection, Noah raised his head with a movement so subtle it might have been missed by any observer.
His eyes, those windows to an existence that transcended normal understanding, gazed out as if they could pierce through the countless layers of space and time that separated him from where Eckert, the Great Usurper, had just been!
A light smile played across his features, carrying within it understanding and perhaps a touch of fondness.
Everyone had their own journey to walk, their own destiny to forge through choices that would echo across existence.
Eckert had chosen his path, and Noah would not begrudge him that freedom. After all, his Flow of Existence had always encompassed thr flow of all other pertinent beings as he made himself the center of attention!
His attention shifted, drawn by movement in his immediate vicinity.
Before him on the golden sands stood Moiraine, her transformed presence radiating the kind of power that made Existence itself pay attention.
Her hands were extended toward him, cradled within them a shard of white-gold light that pulsed with significance beyond measure.
This was her sacrifice...her Kleos Glyph, that ultimate expression of power that she had achieved through his gifts, now transformed into something else entirely!
|Moiraine has sacrificed the Kleos Glyph of Paradoxical Genesis to become a Shard of the Seed of a Lost Forgotten Principle: The Principle of Existential Duality.|
The prompt shimmered before his consciousness, each word carrying weight that was heavy.
Heavy!
What she offered him was a fragment of something that had been lost since the Earliest Folds, a truth that existence itself had forgotten.
|100 Shards will form the complete Seed of the Lost Forgotten Principle: The Principle of Existential Duality.|
One hundred shards to reconstruct something that should have been impossible to recover.
She had given him the first piece of a puzzle whose completion would grant understanding of forces that transcended current reality.
|The Principle of Existential Duality grants the following possible capabilities: The ability to exist simultaneously in contradictory states while maintaining singular consciousness...life and death, presence and absence. One can be both here and there, both strong and weak, choosing which state to manifest based on necessity. Applications include: surviving annihilation by existing in a state of already being destroyed, attacking from positions where one simultaneously is and is not present, and achieving nigh indestructibility by existing in states where death has both already occurred and can never occur.|
...!
Oh.
Oh!!!
The weavings were staggering, speaking to power that would make even the paradoxes that plagued existence seem simple by comparison!
Moiraine’s eyes met his as she presented the shard, and there was something in her gaze that had shifted fundamentally.
The reverence remained, yes, but it had been joined by something else...a fierce protectiveness, a determination that burned like Wheels of Existence being born.
"I still want to call you Sir," she said, her voice carrying a mixture of seriousness.
The words emerged as choice, as declaration of how she chose to honor what existed between them.
The way she looked at him had transformed entirely. Gone was the careful deference of one who served because they must.
In its place stood the imperious majesty that had always been part of her nature, now directed not in spite of him but in service to their shared purpose.
"No," she said firmly, her chin lifting with the kind of certainty.
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