Eighteen months into the Network's silence, Nexus began perceiving something impossible through their temporal vision. An entity approaching reality from a direction that shouldn't exist, moving through dimensions that had no name.
"It's not from any of the three realms," Nexus reported to Meridian during emergency council meeting. "It's not divine, not mortal, not Void. It's from outside the entire cosmic structure we understand. And it's getting closer."
"Is this what the Network was hiding from?" Meridian asked.
"Yes. I can see the Network's perception of it now, eighteen months ago when it first detected the approach. The Network was right to be terrified. This entity is vast beyond comprehension."
"Hostile?"
"Unknown. It doesn't register as hostile or benign. It simply is, and it
