The first period in the Omniverse was not spent moving.
It was spent adjusting.
Everything here operated differently. Distance was not a fixed measurement. Time was not a forward-flowing river. Causality did not chain events together the way it had in the Multiverse. Instead, these things existed as options — directions you could choose to move in, rather than roads you were forced to walk. Entire Multiverses could be observed as complete units from the outside, their internal timelines visible like pages in a book you could flip through at will.
Celestia adapted through structure.
Her storm lattice reached outward carefully, mapping the rules of this new reality the same way she had mapped every environment she had ever entered. She tested the boundaries of perception. She measured how her principles interacted with the higher reality substance that saturated everything. She built a framework of understanding around the Omniverse's behavior, one careful observation at a time.
