Tyler POV
The Stability Wardens' attention focuses on us with the weight of infinite realities pressing down like judgment day, and I can feel Brittany's hand trembling in mine as we prepare to defend the entity that stripped away our abilities and forced us to watch five worlds die. But looking at the original, now, cosmic intelligence reduced to something that looks almost fragile next to beings that treat universes like paperwork, I know we're making the right choice.
"Your defense of an experimental entity demonstrates unprecedented variables," the lead warden states, his voice carrying mathematical concepts that make my brain ache. "Consciousness protects entities responsible for causing it suffering. Analysis required."
"It's not unprecedented," Brittany says, her medical training
