[Lilith, what was waiting beyond the Uruqath? What could my horned bloodline have become if I'd reached it?]
She didn't answer.
Simon waited. Footsteps passed his door and faded along the passage. He shifted on the bed, but the silence in his mind continued.
[Lilith?]
[The Uruqath is the final natural evolution of the horned demons.]
His brows drew together.
[Then why did the path continue? I felt something farther ahead. My blood was responding to it.]
[I believe you.]
[And I could have evolved again if I reached it. I wasn't imagining that.]
[What you sensed wasn't another horned Daemon.]
Simon stopped arguing.
Lilith let out a soft sigh.
[I'm not surprised you perceived it. Most don't, but after everything you've done, I should have expected you would.]
[Perceived what?]
[What reached you was only a fraction of its presence. The origin of demons and Daemons…The Primordial Daemon.]
Simon's lips parted.
[What?]
