To understand what it wants, we have to go back to the beginning. Where did it come from? Maybe it started with a bang, like the spark that lit the universe. Everything began from a singular point and it grew and grew to bursting and what was a small bit of nothingness built a whole world, and on and on. But the monolith is more than that, it's living in there.
[ Some part of him vaguely recalls being there at the beginning and the end of all things. Standing alone on the precipice, but it's just a flash and he can't hold onto the memory. It's enough, though, to differentiate the Singularity from the non-sentient life that started as just a small point of intense heat and density before it exploded. No, the Singularity is something else entirely. ]
Time out beyond this place — it doesn't move in a linear fashion. Things are going backwards and forward and sideways all the time, parallel and alternate timelines running alongside each other, splitting apart and coming back together. I think it pulled us here at a point in flux because something went wrong and we're meant to protect it. Fix things.
It may be hungry for power, maybe all it wanted was to hurt others like it's been hurt. But few monsters in this universe are truly evil. And most of them are lonely and afraid.
[ He smiles a little at himself, stopping himself before he chatters on too long. Well, almost — ]
It didn't bring us here, but it did all the same. It sent out a signal — maybe not the best of ways, but a signal all the same. And every time we overuse or underuse our power and something is out of balance, things go wrong in this world. We're all connected. Do you think maybe...it walked the earth like us once? Or was it always just stone?
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[ Some part of him vaguely recalls being there at the beginning and the end of all things. Standing alone on the precipice, but it's just a flash and he can't hold onto the memory. It's enough, though, to differentiate the Singularity from the non-sentient life that started as just a small point of intense heat and density before it exploded. No, the Singularity is something else entirely. ]
Time out beyond this place — it doesn't move in a linear fashion. Things are going backwards and forward and sideways all the time, parallel and alternate timelines running alongside each other, splitting apart and coming back together. I think it pulled us here at a point in flux because something went wrong and we're meant to protect it. Fix things.
It may be hungry for power, maybe all it wanted was to hurt others like it's been hurt. But few monsters in this universe are truly evil. And most of them are lonely and afraid.
[ He smiles a little at himself, stopping himself before he chatters on too long. Well, almost — ]
It didn't bring us here, but it did all the same. It sent out a signal — maybe not the best of ways, but a signal all the same. And every time we overuse or underuse our power and something is out of balance, things go wrong in this world. We're all connected. Do you think maybe...it walked the earth like us once? Or was it always just stone?