The light was everywhere.
I stood in the new existence, the vast expanse of energy stretching out in all directions. The Origin was beside me, its presence warm and reassuring. The Source and the First were behind me, their support steady and unwavering. But there was something else too—a feeling of vastness, of infinity, of a reality that stretched beyond anything I'd ever known.
It was beautiful. It was terrifying. It was everything I'd ever wanted and nothing I'd ever expected.
"Welcome, James," the Origin said. "Welcome to the beyond."
I looked around, trying to understand what I was seeing. The light seemed to pulse with its own rhythm, a heartbeat of existence that resonated through every fiber of my being. The entities were gone, their consciousnesses merged into the fabric of t
