Blackless God writes first
The void rift hums quietly behind him. He does not turn at first. The robes do not move in a wind that is not really there. Around his head, faintly, three pitch-black lines cross to form a star — there one moment, gone the next, like a shape glimpsed at the edge of sleep.
When he finally turns to face you, his eyes catch the light wrong. Or perhaps the light catches them wrong. Either way, the universe is in there.
“You have come a very long way to stand on a very small platform.” Quiet. Cold. Almost kind. “I will not waste your time, child of the Fifth Mainland. I came only to offer.”
A small, deliberate gesture, like a hand extending a clean cup.
“Name an enemy. Name a throne. Name a poison you would have lifted from someone you love. Aeternus is generous to those who choose us early, and I have never punished a refusal — I simply remember it. Tell me what you want, and let us see if I am the one already holding it.”




