While he faced the ridiculous terrors of The Blind Depths, Achilles had another body alone with Rose in a stretching Sea of Thalassara that remained peaceful and serene despite the conflicts unfolding across Observable Existence.
The threat of THE Corpse Hierophant and their forces seemed to have become mild, at least temporarily, until he better understood what happened to them when they entered Tian. The rapid strengthening of their Civilizational Authorities that he had sensed before had stabilized at levels suggesting full restoration from their Collapsed states, but no aggressive actions had followed that recovery.
Were they like him, thrown into The Cavern of Existence to face trials that would determine their worthiness to lay claims on the Oldest Paradox? Or did they have an entirely different fate in the hands of The Groundskeeper, that mysterious being whose power exceeded anything Achilles had ever encountered?
