Osmont listened calmly as they continued through the gray expanse before asking his question.
"You would not happen to be at the Calymmian Proterozoic Scale or Ediacaran, would you? This would make things very easy."
Naldine looked back at him and did not reply.
She simply stared out toward where they were going, letting silence serve as answer enough.
After a moment, she continued as if the question had never been asked.
"Rhyacian Proterozoic Lifeforms alone are a problem for you. If we put Beowulf on the lowest tier, someone could be stronger than him by a factor of ten and still be a Rhyacian Proterozoic Lifeform."
She glanced at him to ensure he understood the scale of what she was describing.
"As I mentioned, Infinity and THE Primordial Source are ideal. But because they can be so distant, most of us focus on what is Observable and Unobservable. We take that into our Civilizations."
Her explanation shifted into something more fundamental.
"All of existence divides into two categories. The Observable and the Unobservable. Everything that can be perceived, measured, witnessed, or acknowledged falls into the Observable. Everything that cannot falls into the Unobservable."
She gestured at the gray Interstices around them.
"The Observable is what you currently see, what can be seen, what has been seen, what will be seen. The accumulated force of all potential perception pressing against existence from every angle. When something enters the Observable, it gains substance through acknowledgment. It becomes real in ways that unwitnessed things are not."
Her voice grew more contemplative as she described the counterpart.
"The Unobservable is not simply what you cannot see. It is what exists beyond the possibility of perception. What has never been witnessed and never will be. The vast darkness surrounding everything acknowledged, pressing inward with force that dwarfs what the Observable contains. For every star that shines, countless more burn in regions no consciousness will ever reach."
She watched his expression for signs of comprehension before continuing.
"At THE Proterozoic Scale, we learn to draw from both. We infuse and integrate the force of all that is Observable, or the force of all that is Unobservable, into our existence."
The technical details came easily to her after eons of living them.
"Those accomplished enough can form Proterozoic Bones or Organs even without the infusion of Infinity, if they fill them with enough weavings of either Observable or Unobservable. After they have transformed enough of their existence, when they pass a certain marker, they go from Rhyacian Proterozoic Lifeforms to Calymmian Proterozoic Lifeforms."
She explained as best she could because she knew the stakes involved. There were beings at the Calymmian Proterozoic Scale who would very much like to put their hands on this infinite battery floating beside her. Knowledge might be the only thing keeping him alive when those beings eventually made their moves.
And after all this talking...
HUUM!
"Naldine Manthon."
HUUM!


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