Pact of Blood
"The memory of what we achieved.
The ability to see the truth of the universe. We will become as blind as they are."
"But we will be present," Laura said. She felt the pull of the planet, a gravitational yearning for the soil, the air, and the heartbeat.
"And maybe that’s enough." They didn't fall; they anchored. They poured their cosmic essence into a physical manifestation, stitching together their scattered consciousness into human biology. It was a violent process.
As their existence condensed into the constraints of a body, the immense weight of their experience—the eons spent as laws, the burden of the prison, the absolute truth of the Void—was forced into the narrow channels of a h