Chapter 2555 The Unexpected Gift:>86

As I walked and it slithered across the smooth stone floor I began to wonder how all the possible crossroad decisions I had made had led me here. Had I been skillfully maneuvered to this fate? Was there really any choice available to me that could have prevented this? No, things had been set into motion long before I was even born that, like gravity, was unavoidable. The more I thought about it the more I realized that it was beyond anyone to change. The anger and guilt fell away and all that was left was acceptance of a role anyone could have played, it just happened to be me. I was no one special I was just a piece on the chessboard that was as faceless and powerless as any other. My anger and sense of betrayal were based upon a human spectrum. My father was none of these things and operated on a wholly different paradigm. He saw things in the long range goals that spanned millennium. I was simply along for the fucking ride. There was that anger again. It was pointless to get pissed off at a being who was as alien to me as I was to humanity. I was only human on the outside on the inside I was something terrible and ancient. Maybe it was time I accepted that fact and quit whining and took an active role in things. I looked around at the carvings in the walls, the floor and the pillars. Humans saw beauty in the symmetry of things. Here beauty was turned on its side and seen as formless and ever changing. The pale light cast unsteady radiance upon the bas reliefs and gave them a sense of movement and shifting of both shape and texture. As we moved down the spiral ramp that led ever downward I felt as if the place was alive and breathing. The radiance grew steadier and stronger the further down we went. I could see side passages and chambers that were attached to the ramp and in them were more exotic figures like the one by my side. The upper levels were sparsely populated but the further down we went the more of the creatures appeared until I knew they numbered in the thousands. I don't know how long it took to get to the very bottom and the source of the illumination but at last we reached it and I wasn't prepared for what was before me. I thought that the light came from some sort of crystal or device that was producing the weird radiance but I was wrong, dead wrong. I shook my head as I peered into the gap between spaces. It was a tear in the very fabric of reality and it was here that the unholy light slipped free from. I walked around it and no matter what side I looked it showed only one vantage point of the chasm of worlds. I looked at the top of the thing and saw what appeared to be bubbles drifting up from the tear and disappearing into the very air. But there was no childlike joy at seeing the bubbles pop. No, there was a growing fear of the contamination those spheres carried with them from outside our known universe. "Is it not glorious brother," one of the things asked me.