Lyrate immediately noticed that something had changed in my expression as I rose from the formation. She looked at me expectantly, her eyes narrowing slightly as she tried to read the answer from my face.
"So?" she asked. "What did you see?"
"The Generator."
She stared at me for a moment before slowly exhaling. "That is hardly an answer."
"I know."
"You were already convinced that your talent might be connected to the breakthrough. You spent half your time talking about evolving it before we even came here. If the All-Knowing Eyes simply showed you the Generator, then all it really did was confirm what you already suspected."
"Not exactly." I glanced toward the endless darkness surrounding us. "If the Origin Expanses of other universes were the key, I should have seen one of them. I didn't. The vision was very specific. It showed me activating the Generator, and then it showed the gears forming across my chest. That wasn't random."
