How did one occupy the attention of a psychopath with unfathomable power before they turned toward torture?
The question burned through Noah's mind, devoid of panic but weighted with absolute necessity.
He had to accomplish this task while simultaneously searching for other avenues of escape, other plans that might bear fruit where direct confrontation would only hasten collapse.
An idea was rising in his thoughts...something related to THE Dead Order.
He did not know enough secrets of the Earliest Folds, could not claim comprehensive understanding of how catastrophic events had truly unfolded in that era.
But he did know, through stories and fragments of truth, that the death of THE Dead Order came at the hands of THE Living Paradox.
This ridiculous being standing before him had supposedly faced down all the other THE Living Existences before he was imprisoned, and a consequence of thst battle was the collapse of THE Living Order.
But all of this was in the stories.
