Morgan stared into the deep darkness, watching massive tentacle-like arms breach and retreat back into the infernal vortex. He never felt so aware of his own insignificance as he did in that moment.
“Okay,” he answered, “who are you?”
“How can you know the unknowable? Or apprehend a god? Can a mote of dust lay hold the heavens? Can you devour entire worlds? Two more left.” Its voice echoed across the galaxy, shaking heaven and earth.
“That’s bullshit! That’s not an answer!” Morgan shouted.
“Rebuke me again, and you will have never existed.”
“What does that mean?”
“You will have never been born, never lived, and never been known. Whatever pitiful sentiments anchor you to this life will have never been. Your thread will be plucked from the Great Tapestry. One.”
“No! Please! That wasn’t a question!”
“You have asked, and We have answered. The bargain is kept. You have one more question.”
“I need a moment to think.”
“I have eternity.”
Morgan wracked his brain. His first question resulted in more questions. His second was an accident. The last question had to be carefully woven if he were to find some way to stop the entity from tearing apart the universe.
“Okay . . .”
Void Engineer 