Noah stood on the crimson terrace, motionless, for a long time as his mind became filled with understanding and profundity!
Below him, the Legacy went on settling. Moriarty went on pacing. Theon went on dreaming in his cocoon. The sky of records went on scrolling forever.
His eyes were elsewhere.
He was looking at five small grey places in the dark, light years away, and at one of them blooming.
"I have been replacing existence," he said aloud.
His voice was quiet. There was no one near enough to hear it except Ruination, everywhere at once around him, and she said nothing.
"Since the beginning. My Dream rolls over a place, and the place becomes mine, and whatever it was before stops being. A Gap becomes my Gap. A Dimension becomes my Dimension. The Legacy, all of it, replaced, long before today."
He looked at the replaced gap, silent and his. "It works. It has always worked. It made me strong. It made me safe."
He looked at the blooming one.
