When your own blood, when your only son was dissolving into a soup of undifferentiation in front of you, you may be panicked and regretful.
Noah was neither.
The more he understood existence, the more he realized he had been wrong about many things. It was great and all to protect others, to shield them from dangers that exceeded their capabilities, to use his power to ensure that those he cared about never faced threats that could end them. But if they had no power to protect themselves, if they relied entirely on his presence to survive, then everything was useless if a single accident occurred.
And existence was filled with accidents.
THE Living Paradox had just revealed that Primordial Architects and ancient Formless Terrors and slumbering Undivided Ones were waking across THE Prima Indifferentia. THE Entity continued to spread through THE Wastes and Primordial Realms with methodology that even THE Primordial Paradox could not fully counter.
