The Sororis Prima registered it first.
The Scales of Her Existence.
Not her Infinity, which was already gone. The Scales themselves, the structural framework of Vakochev's arrangement that classified her as Ordovician Paleozoic, that defined the tier of her standing and the specific capabilities that standing conferred, that connected her existence to the broader arrangement of Observable Existence's power hierarchy.
Something was eating them!
She lurched upward from the obsidian surface with a burst of her remaining Observable Force, pulling her Custodes with her, and looked down at the sea from a meter above its surface with the expression of a being who has just identified a threat!
The sea moved.
