The past had been finite.
Once the final major residues of extinct universes and dead power systems finished flowing into the loop, Absolute Comprehension shifted its primary focus without any interruption in the process. The present Multiverse continued to feed him in the background — living systems, ongoing hybrid experiments, the constant low-level novelty generated by the Paragons' reincarnation machine — but the denser, more incomplete layers now lay ahead and sideways.
Future.
Alternate.
Runar turned his perception toward them.
The future did not exist as a single fixed path. It existed as a vast, shifting cloud of probabilities, some dense and likely, others thin and fragile, all of them casting shadows backward into the present. Absolute Comprehension read those shadows with the same calm precision it applied to everything else.
He saw potential paths the Multiverse could take.
