The beginning of time.
After a long wait sitting on a bench in a cold and empty stone temple in the middle of a land he didn’t know, Keymaster stood. He didn’t recognize the god they worshipped. He chuckled to himself, thinking that in the thousands of years he had lived and traveled the multiverse, there was still a religion he didn’t know. He wondered how many higher powers creatures could invent to guide their beliefs.
A, The side door slid open, but nothing—and no one—walked in. The room was completely empty. Apart from his uneven heartbeats and the lone candle quivering on the altar in worship of the unknown god, nothing in this room moved.
“Who’s there?” Keymaster asked.
The sheet of marble behind the altar lit up, and he could see the silhouette of a human shape, large with fol
