The glass halls healed slowly around Noah, crack by crack, and he stood in the middle of them and thought.
Two dreams, two deaths. He had lost every Dimension in his Dream to a single light, and he had lost Emotive to a ring of hunters one breath away from winning. Both times he had learned something.
He laid the pieces out in his mind.
The first piece was a place. He knew exactly where THE First Gu of Emotions floated now, at the heart of its storm of feelings in the Chrysalis, and he knew that a Shard of IT sat somewhere inside it.
The second piece was fear. That vast creature, halfway to Unfathomable, had run. It had run from Achilles once he had grasped Shinjitsu, and it had weakened with Emotive inside its threads. Those two had touched it where raw power had failed. This was a unique situation that was likely never to repeat outside these two factors!
Emotions and Assimilation!
