Chapter 4033: Give Everything! IV

She moved among the slumbering Inevitabilities with grace that made reality reorganize itself around her presence.

“At a certain point, you have to ask yourself what you will obtain if you ever do reach their level of complexity. Will you be better off? Happier? More fulfilled?” She paused, her layered eyes reflecting depths of experience.

“There is solace in mediocrity. In simply being. In existing without the weight of infinite possibility pressing down upon your every decision.”

Her voice grew softer, almost wistful.

“The mediocre sleep peacefully. They love simply. They die with fewer regrets because they never knew what they could have become. Sometimes, Outsider, ignorance isn’t just bliss. It is mercy.”

…!

Her words were heavy. But…

Noah shook his head with immediate, absolute certainty.

“The mediocre do not get to make decisions. The mediocre do not have choices.” His voice carried the weight of conviction that transcended simple belief!

“The day that great beings make the choice to do whatever they want in existence, the mediocre only have to follow. If they are told to die, they have to die. If they are commanded to suffer, they suffer.”

His grip on the Goad tightened, the simple stick humming with resonance.

“I do not want to be so mediocre that if THE Creature proclaimed for existence to perish… I cannot say no.”

The silence that followed was absolute. Then Khor laughed with profound interest that made the very concept of amusement pay attention.

“You want to be able to say no to something as vast as THE Creature?”

She shook her head, but her smile remained.

“That is an impossible dream. Very few understand that entity, and even fewer will ever be like him. To stand against THE Creature is to stand against the foundation of current existence itself.”

Noah shook his head at this, his certainty allowing no room for accepting impossibility.

“The Inevitabilities were here before THE Creature, right? THE Creature had to run from the Inevitabilities…does this not mean the Inevitabilities were unfathomably complex? He had to receive help from THE Living Origin, THE Living Concept, and THE Living Paradox to be able to survive against the Inevitabilities.”

Khor listened to Noah’s words with eyes that blazed brighter with each assertion. She tilted her head in a gesture that made dimensions uncertain about their orientation.

“Did he?” Her voice carried amusement that transcended simple humor. “Where did you hear all these Stories, Outsider? Who knows what truly happened between THE Creature, Inevitabilities, and THE Living Existences?”

She moved closer, her presence making the air itself pay attention.

“Did they say this was what happened? Are able to hear things of what happened back then from THE Creature himself? Just who… is making up all these Stories that you have seemingly heard?”

BOOM!

The question struck Noah with a heavy force.

His eyes flashed with light of thought and reflection as implications cascaded through his consciousness.

Every story he had heard, every piece of history he had been told…who had told them? Who had witnessed these primordial events? Who benefited from these particular versions of truth?

Khor laughed at his expression, the sound containing layers of meaning.

“Maybe that is what happened. Or maybe not. Then… are the ones who are truly powerful not THE Living Paradox? THE Living Origin? Maybe they predated both THE Creature and Inevitabilities. Maybe one should seek to be like them.”

She paused, studying him with those impossible eyes.

“Or better yet, why try to be like others at all? Why don’t you become something else yourself? Something that has never been?”

Noah’s eyes blazed with brilliance at this suggestion, certainty and possibility combining into purpose.

“I plan to,” he said with conviction that could have carved truth into reality itself.

“Existence is vast… unfathomably so. Just when I think I have a grasp on it, I find there is even more I do not understand. So long as I continue to become more complex… I will escape mediocrity. I will be someone who is always able to make a choice… regardless of the forces in the surrounding Existence.”

Khor smiled at his words with something that might have been approval.

She moved among the other Inevitabilities, her touch stirring them from slumber. One by one, massive forms of contradiction rose to consciousness.

Many noticed Noah immediately, and eerily, impossibly, they smiled at him…expressions of recognition, of acceptance, of acknowledgment that he had given freely.

They accepted Khor’s strokes like children seeking comfort, each one possessing power that exceeded normal Dukes by margins that made comparison meaningless.

Yet here they were, content to be petted by one of their own while acknowledging a tiny Outsider who had fed their siblings with his Everything.

Khor ultimately turned to Noah with an expression that contained evaluation and decision.

“You don’t seem all that mediocre, Outsider. Weak, yes. Fragile, certainly. But not mediocre.” Her smile grew knowing. “Because how can one who does not belong in the Earliest Folds but is here… be mediocre?”

BOOM!

The revelation hung in the air. She had known all along that he didn’t belong here, that he was from elsewhere, elsewhen.

This whole time, she had been calling him Outsider not as description.

It was as recognition of fundamental truth.

Noah gazed at her calmly, fearlessly. Of course he had suspected this. The title had been too specific, too knowing to be coincidence.

Khor smiled at his lack of surprise.

“It matters not where you are from, Outsider. Or when. But since you came all the way here seeking complexity and the other grandiose dreams you mentioned… I could help you out. You have fed some of these kids with your Everything. That deserves… reciprocation.”

Without warning, she raised one fair hand to her chest.

The gesture was simple, but waves of complexity buzzed in the background as reality recognized that something significant was about to occur.

Her hand pressed against where a heart might be if Inevitabilities had such things, then pushed inward.

Into herself.

Into her own existence.

What she pulled out defied observation!

It was an obsidian seed that seemed to contain layers of collapsed Folds, each one folded into the next in patterns that created infinite recursion. Looking at it directly caused the mind to try following paths that led everywhere and nowhere simultaneously!

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