[ As the ground shakes again the yellow dog whines, circling twice before lying flat on the floor, head on her paws.

Kahlil is more focused on her expression at the moment, watching it shift as she speaks. If she's a creature like Lucifer, then she's a much more dangerous one - he believes she's telling him the truth, and there's a pang of empathy for her loss.

But she changes the subject before giving details, and so he obliges her in that by not pushing for more personal information. He steps toward the dog, crouching down to pet her flank soothingly as another short earthquake rumbles beneath the stone floor, a flash of guilt briefly appearing across his expression when he looks down at her. ]

You mean the version of it here? [ In Horizon. He glances up at her, frowning thoughtfully. From what he understands there's only a few people here that have been to the physical location of the Singularity. ] I've approached it before. It felt... deeply old.

[ That's the only way to describe it. Then, curiously: ]

It seems alive, in some way. Not like a thinking, breathing creature, but...

[ He trails off. It feels like the yasi'halaun, or the Gates. It responds.

It feels like a piece of a god. ]