Eva was there when Eos was speaking with his Singularity, and now the full measure of that moment came into stark light. He was not just talking to the Primordial Record but to all of them.
"Please," Eos had whispered, "Don't ask me to bear this. I have lost enough. Do not make the memory of you the cornerstone of my survival. I would rather stumble forward with you in the dark than walk a sunlit path haunted by your ghost. My strength comes from those I love standing with me, not from their ashes. Stay. Fight with me. Live with me… Fall with me."
But even as she wept and fought, feeling the power of the light that was slowly enhancing her understanding of her Origin, pushing her ever closer to reach the fifth layer of Revelations, she also felt the darkness pressing against that light. Felt Enoch's hatred, his envy, his need to destroy everything that was not him. And in that feeling, she understood something that the Primordials had forgotten in their long war against the dar
