Prologue I
In the never-ending darkness that stretched on into the beyond, there was [Silence].
The [Silence] was such that it isolated all vision, all sound and all touch that a human wants, craves and longs for. Such stillness had the capability to drive one into solitude and sink into oneself until no desire remains to exist, to love and to live.
It was a place where time stood frozen. It was nothingness; it was [Death].
In this calmness, all of a sudden, something moved. For a place where even time was held fugitive, this was strange. The beings in the darkness, in [Silence], in the ever solitude of [Death], stirred awake, and all their attention moved to settle on the peculiarity that had emerged.
A speck of light, barely a twinkle, flickered into existence. It was small, so very small as if a single swipe in its direction would blow it out of existence.
In the endless darkness, there was never any light. Any that existed extinguished beyond the barrier, torn to shreds and scattered into pieces that snuffed out any chances of life.
Light was rare. Odd. Curious.
Extraordinary.
And... dangerous.
As soon as the light appeared, the eyes looking at it burned. It sizzled and charred amongst the horrid, disconcerting screeches and cries that filled the unknown.
The [Silence], for the first time in aeons, experienced chaos. The beings residing within the unknown crackled as the light burned their subsistence to ashes.
It barely lasted a second, and for the first time since its beginning, [Silence] was truly desolate.
