The breakthrough came at the precise moment when Shia stopped trying to communicate and simply began to exist in The Dark's presence.
Reed watched through the Network as she settled into the Emerald Meditation—a trance state that the Goblin Sage had developed through cycles of experimentation. Her consciousness expanded beyond the boundaries of individual thought, becoming a living demonstration of integrated awareness that somehow managed to be both deeply personal and cosmically vast.
The effect on Nihil Prime was immediate and profound.
Where before the entity had writhed with internal contradiction, now it grew still—not the stillness of death, but the focused attention of something encountering a completely new phenomenon. Through his enhanced perception, Reed felt the cascade of reactions rippling through The Dark's fractured consciousness as it tried to process what it was witnessing.
How do you contain multitudes without fragmenting?
