*THE THUNDEROUS CHIME OF A BELL RESOUNDS THROUGH THE COSMOS*
THE FIRST CHIME. A bolt of black rips horizontally across the sky, tearing a new horizon into reality. You feel nauseous looking up on it, but strangely nostalgic at the same time. It's unlike anything you've ever seen. You have been here before, many times. Your mind and body are running at full capacity to simply perceive it.
THE SECOND CHIME. Tendrils of inky darkness erupt from the artificial horizon, the plumes of shadow splaying above and below it like countless eyelashes. The scale is beyond reckoning. You feel an inaudible thrum of energy in your bones. Windows rattle. Animals start to panic.
THE THIRD CHIME. The titanic eye opens, its sclera somehow a darker black than even the tendrils, a colossal, luminous purple iris staring at you. Staring through you. Seeing you in angles you didn't even know you had. You are recognized. You recognize it in turn. It feels like time has stopped.
Before the universe as we know it existed, there was nothing. But from whence did the nothing arise? Before even that was a fathomless emptiness that defies understanding and description. Not the first concept to exist, but a concept that came even before that, even before such things as concepts existed.
THE FOURTH CHIME. The emptiness that begets nothingness, from whence all that isn't is born and will one day return. That place where all that isn't yet and all that no longer is resides.
"𝐸𝑠𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐 𝐸𝑣𝑖𝑙 𝐸𝑋𝑡𝑟𝑎,"
Her voice cuts through your mind to declare its name,
"𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝟶 - 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑊𝑜𝑚𝑏 𝑜𝑓 𝐸𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑦 「 𝐺𝑒ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑎 」"
Relief comes at last as a your view of the eye is suddenly obscured by something, but just as you feel like you can move again an intense vertigo hits you. It feels like your perception is being pulled backwards, like a camera frame zooming out, revealing the delicate lace and frills of an eyepatch upon the face of a beautiful maiden, as if the impossible immensity of what you've just experienced, of the universe itself, existed entirely within its confines, just under the fabric.
𝐷𝑖𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝐾𝐼𝐿𝐿𝐼𝑁𝐺 𝑀𝐸 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑒? 𝐺𝑌𝐴𝐻𝐴𝐻𝐴𝐻𝐴𝐻𝐴…!!
