Three years after the Great Consciousness Experiment began.
The ancient entities had not been exaggerating when they warned us about the deep mysteries.
"Status report on the transcendence research," I asked Marcus, who had adapted remarkably well to coordinating projects that existed partially outside normal spacetime.
"Current research teams: forty-seven consciousness types working across seventeen dimensions, twelve temporal orientations, and at least three states of existence that our language doesn't have words for," he reported with the matter-of-fact tone of someone who had learned to treat the impossible as routine.
"Results?"
"We've successfully developed consciousness forms that exist in pure mathematics, awareness types that experience reality as music across cosmic scales,
