The harvesting process was not violent. It was worse than violence. It was systematic. It was methodical. It was designed to be as painless as possible, which somehow made it more terrible. The suffering of transformation with the awareness of irrelevance.
Sarah Chen watched as the preserved humans in Sanctuary Seven began to dissolve. Their forms remained visible, but their substance was being drawn away, molecule by molecule, consciousness piece by piece, flowing toward Void Walker Prime like water flowing downhill.
The being that Void Walker Prime had become was vast. It existed partially in normal space but also extended into dimensions that Sarah could barely perceive. It was pulling from all the preserved zones simultaneously, creating a harvest that encompassed every human who had
