Elder Qian's reaction to the Overseer is not a being, it's a structure is to stand up, walk to his window, and stare at the mountain outside for about forty-five seconds without speaking.I wait.Bao Fengtian, who came with me and is eating leftover kitchen bread he had in his pocket, waits too.Finally Elder Qian turns around. His eyes have the specific look of a man who has been researching something for sixty years and just had the final piece land."A self-sustaining cosmic formation," he says, very carefully. "That developed consciousness.""Or had it from the beginning," I say. "The Void Dragon showed me the oldest layer. There was something before the hunger. Before the structure. Something that looked—" I stop."Looked like what?" His voice is steady but his hands, folded in front of him, aren't."Like a person," I say. "The shape of it. At the bottom. Before everything else."The room goes very quiet.Bao Fengtian stops chewing."Someone became the Overseer," Elder Qian says.
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