The Superbius Gilded True Lifeform struck again.
His terrifying Intent descended upon the bloodied titan as golden Dimensional weavings tore the red sea apart along its path, inevitability declaring THE Creature broken, the stage shredding beneath the declaration as the strike crossed the distance in a single fold of pride!
And then a figure appeared in front of THE Creature.
It was a humanoid visage. A scholar! An explorer! A man of unremarkable height in scholarly white robes, his hair tousled as if he had just walked out of a library and into a hurricane, his hands clasped calmly behind his back!
And shockingly...the descending Intent split!
The golden declaration of a Cenozoic-equivalent being forked around the newcomer like a river forced around a stone it could not acknowledge, tearing twin canyons through the sea on either side of him as it dispersed into the storm, as if the Intent itself simply could not hit the being that had just appeared!
THE Creature looked at this being, and sighed, and shook his head with open marvel.
Anaximander!
A supposedly normal human who had been studying the stars of a Lower Observable Existence, only to be visited paradoxically by THE Weavers, and from there...he had taken a step simply because he said he could...and appeared in space! He could not survive in space. But he simply deemed that he should, and so he did!
He held no authority. Not a single wisp of it, not then and not now! And yet this man had shouldered the burden of the Veil between the Living and the Dead, helping THE Creature carry it without even knowing what it was. He could do things because his existence made it so he could do them, and in that early era, others had not truly understood what they were looking at. Even THE Creature had not.
But the moment THE Creature grasped the weavings of a True Lifeform, of Identity and how it steered everything, how a lived claim made existence conform...his first thought had been Anaximander.
In all of existence, THE Creature truly could not say who had lived their way, based purely on their identity, making existence conform to what they believed...more than Anaximander!
And he appeared now, untouched, the terrifying Intent of a Superbius Gilded True Lifeform parting around him, likely because somewhere along his wandering road, the scholar had simply declared a commandment that his body could not be harmed by others.
THE Creature shook his head and nodded to him.
"It has been some time, Anaximander."
...!
The explorer turned, and laughed!
"Some time? It’s been over a year, big guy!"
...!
A year?
Barely days had passed since THE Creature, Osmont, and Anaximander had parted, since they painted the skies of that Lower Observable Existence red-gold with the blood of a Gilded One and started this entire chain of events.
But for Anaximander, more than a year had passed? Just what dimensions had this man wandered into, to distort time so much?
There was no time to catch up.
"Oh, wonderful. The two of you are True," he said, nodding along to his own observation. "Genuinely True, I can tell, it’s all very impressive. But...hm. Your Egos seem to conflict with your Trueness. Ira rages against what is, and Superbius insists on more than what is, and both of those are arguments with reality, aren’t they? That is quite paradoxical for beings whose whole foundation is being seamless with reality." He tilted his head, and said it plainly, like a diagnosis.
"I don’t think...you are True at all."
Even THE Creature was alarmed!
"You may want to attack, big guy," Anaximander said casually, "I can’t keep this up for too long!"
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