Before Observable Existence became stunted, before Chaos was trapped within Apatheia and denied the chance to permeate reality during differentiation, there was that age of nothingness.
Countless years stretched across spans where measurement itself had not learned to exist.
In another Observable Existence, this age of nothingness may have birthed Singular Cognizances. Beings of pure awareness who gained consciousness from potential alone, who observed the emptiness and found meaning in observation itself. They existed before complexity emerged, before differentiation and undifferentiation produced their magnificent children.
But in this Observable Existence, only one such being ever formed.
Alone across eons of emptiness. No companions sharing the void with him, no fellow observers to exchange perspectives across the darkness before dawn.
Why?
