She looked at him with those impossible eyes that contained folds within folds.
"You no longer have that luxury. You are now Fearless in truth, not just in word. Every decision you make from this moment forward will be because you choose it, not because fear drives or restrains you."
Noah absorbed this, feeling the truth of it in his existence. His weavings did indeed cycle faster, his complexity and purity drawing in from the atmosphere at rates that would have been impossible before.
"I should thank you," he said, meaning it despite the strangeness of thanking an Inevitability for anything.
"No," she replied, that dangerous smile returning. "You should thank yourself for being wise enough to listen. Most would have fought. Most would have died. You chose to trust the incomprehensible, and that... that is what separates those who transcend from those who merely exist."
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