The Discovery of the Veil
The Quintessence issued from the embers of the first extinguished star. It was there in the physical realm to experience a glorious haze that issued along with it, but the Quintessence realized that it did not have the same form. When the Quintessence saw that the glorious haze, that was not quite smoke, not quite fog, was knowingly moving to explore the new environment in which it found itself, the Quintessence wondered if it too could move and explore. It went off alone, never encountering anything that seemed capable or willing to acknowledge it, and before long, it was curious about the glorious haze that it had left. When the Quintessence found AEther again, AEther said,
“I wondered where you had gone.”
The Quintessence was surprised, it did not know that it could be seen.
“Why don’t you help me?” AEther asked, “Maybe together we could slow Time enough to stop these,” it indicated how it does and the Quintessence saw what was like a tear with smouldering edges that ate back and made the middle, that was like a whirlpool of colors, bigger and more circular.
The Quintessence was not alarmed, but found the sight very pleasing. It moved around the tear and it looked the same from every vantage point; flat and slowly growing. The whirlpool of it’s center was vibrant but the vision of Space behind it was always clear, like the wound was a veil over the existence that it spread to. The Quintessence was drawn to it and AEther protested.
“Don’t,” it said and seized with fear. In all of it’s adventures with the wounds of Space, AEther had never dared interact directly with the shiny inside. AEther had discovered the ability to manipulate the magics at the center of the wounds from a distance, with concentration, and it looked on in it’s version of horror, unable or unwilling to intervene, as the Quintessence drew closer, and eventually passed through it.
On the other side, the Quintessence found the form that it lacked when it was born alongside AEther. And because the realm inside the wound of Space was as new and unformed as the physical realm, the realm of AEther, the Quintessence was free to roam, like it’s sibling, exploring the colorful new surroundings.
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