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She kept her cheek against his shoulder, her voice low and warm, as if they were the only two in the chamber."I can feel it, you know. My Dream Immensity grows on everything you feel, and it whispers to me while it grows. Other Immense Ones. Distant Legacies. Shards of IT, humming somewhere far off. You want to move on all of them eventually, I think. So you’ll need to decide who goes where, and who is worth sending."
She tightened her grip, very slightly.
"Tell me how we can be of use to you."
A pause.
"Tell me how I can be of use."
She didn’t just want to be a useless bitch hanging off his arm while he did everything that mattered. What she wanted was to be something he held. Something sharp. Something he could point at the impossible and watch it break. She had built her entire Dream Immensity around that. Every Ego. Every emotion. Her whole Everything, pointed at him, so that one day she would be sharp enough to cut a road for his dream!
Across the chamber, Ul’moreth shook his head slowly.
He turned away, his blazing hair trailing behind him like a cape of obsidian and gold, and walked across the shallow seas toward the frozen Unanimous Frost to study it from below, as if watching any longer were beyond him.
Noah looked at this, and smiled.
He laid his free hand on Emotive’s head and stroked her hair, slowly. His Dream pulsed through her when he touched her, warm as sunlight through cold stone, and her hair settled into gold.
"Apart from the Immense Ones you’re sensing," he said, "I can feel every Newly Risen Immense One across this whole sector of existence now. Every Established one too. Everything that falls within my charge."
His gold eyes went distant.
"I could send you to them. You, and the others. To the ones whose dreams I’ve read, and whom I personally believe deserve death."
His hand stayed on her hair.
"THE Long Night has its own view of debts. It keeps its own count. Some of it is fair. Some of it isn’t. I won’t let the cold decide that for me. I will review them myself, and I will decide."
He looked up through the broken roof, at the falling snow, and his Dream turned slow and vast around them.
"And THE Keepers of Existence. They’ve tried to take me once already. They sit at the edge of my charge with debts that make the Fiend look small. They won’t stop because I’ve grown. They’ll come harder. So we go after them."
"Ling and Poona are in THE Chrysalis with the Thinker. THE Legacy of THE Acharya of Immensity has spread across existence hunting Shards of IT. They should be bringing results soon. Every Shard stretches our dreams further, and makes the next one easier to find."
A breath of snow left him.
"Little by little, we’ll cover more ground of existence. One region, then the next, then the next after that. Until everything moving across existence is moving within my infinite sea of dreams."
He smiled down at her.
"At that point, I can relax a little. Until then, I have much to do."
...!
Emotive stared up at him!
The frost on his jaw, the gold in his eyes, the seas turning around him, the whole weight of a winter moving when he breathed. A man who had walked into a frozen hell alone, and was walking out owning many things!
He was the grandest thing she had ever seen!
"Then point me at anything," she said quietly, her voice perfectly steady while her hair burned every color at once. "Anything at all. And I will cut it down for you, and smile while I do it."
Noah laughed softly.
"Soon. Soon. Let’s take care of things here first."
He lifted his eyes past her, up into the ruined dome of the Heart, to where THE Unanimous Frost hung frozen in the broken light.
His Dream gathered!
|THE Dreaming Human Origin speaks, as the Epitropos of this region.|
|"You."|
His voice went up through the Heart and through the flow of the Long Night itself, and the falling snow stopped in midair!
|"Night Lifeforms who fall under my jurisdiction of THE Long Night. How long do you plan to remain frozen?"|
|"Kneel."|
HUUUM!
The Frost moved!
Its sixteen screaming voices went silent all at once. Its last order, to end the warm thing, shrank to nothing. And the new pull, rising up from the throne through the flow of the Long Night, swelled until it filled every purpose the Frost was made of!
The colossus groaned like a glaicer waking after an Age. Its cinder-cracked brand of iron bowed; its mirrored plates tipped and caught the gold light of the shallow seas; its miles-long veil of old frost drifted down through the dome like a falling banner. The white light in its armored chest flared, and steadied.
And THE Unanimous Frost knelt!
BOOM!
Its knees struck the floor of the Heart, and the whole chamber shook! Snow burst up in a ring that rolled across the shallow seas and broke against Emotive’s legs. The tremor ran down the Descent of Chains, up through the broken frozen sun, and out across the Evergrave, and in the dark windows of the Rim-Domain, forty million kept dead pressed their grey faces to the glass!
Sixteen Immensities, braided into one purpose, on their knees before her Master!
Emotive forgot to breathe!
Noah raised one hand toward the kneeling Frost.
Rivers of his Dream poured out of it, blue-gold and thick as roads, rolling up through the dome and into the Frost’s bowed body. They wound through the cracks in its ice and the seams of its frozen armor, and wherever they went, its glacial light turned faintly gold!
He raised his other hand toward THE Amalgamation of Dreams.
The colossus of fused dreams lifted its crowned skull as a second set of rivers poured into it, through the open cage of its ribs, around the golden panda seated at its heart, into every ring of dreams spinning around it!
Two colossi. Two rivers. One man between them on a cracked white throne.
Then he brought his hands together!
SHIIING!
The rivers bent through the dome and dragged the two giants toward each other, the Frost’s ice grinding across the floor, the Amalgamation’s rings spinning faster and faster, until the space between them was a single blinding seam of blue-gold and glacial white.
They began to fuse!
Oh, his dream was a grand one.
Emotive could barely hold it in her head. It was bigger than this chamber. Bigger than the Heart, bigger than the Evergrave, bigger than every gigaparsec of his charge. He was going to cover existence with it, as snow covers a field, until everything that moved, moved inside him!
And her emotions would rise alongside him. Every Ego. Her whole Everything. As far as he went, forever!
And even more than that...
She let go of his arm.
Quietly, while his eyes stayed on the two colossi and his hands stayed full of rivers, she stepped back into the shallow seas and lifted her own hands, small and pale, fingers spread.
And she sent herself in!
Her Dream Immensity slid out of her in a thin thread of every color at once and wound into the seam of light where the Frost and the Amalgamation were joining. It found the sixteen screaming purposes and the countless loyal dreams, terror grinding against worship, cold grinding against warm.
And she smoothed them.
She turned the terror into awe. She wove the old hatred of the Regent’s dead hunt into the Amalgamation’s devotion, feeling into feeling, until the seam between them disappeared. Until whatever came out of that light would feel one thing, completely.
Yours!
It cost her. A piece of her Emotions went into the seam and stayed there.
Let it!
Her dream was grand too!
And if it took her entire existence to make his come true, she would give it gladly!