The entity that began to manifest was not biological. It was not even entirely physical. It was something that existed in multiple states simultaneously, present in normal space and the Void at the same time, occupying more dimensions than the human brain could comfortably process. Marcus's portion of the merged consciousness tried to describe what he was seeing. The new being's unified voice spoke, but with effort, as if each word was being pulled from a vocabulary that had no words for what it was trying to express. "It's like looking at a color that doesn't exist. Like seeing a shape that breaks geometry. Like hearing a sound that has too many frequencies." The Guardian moved with speed that suggested she was no longer playing the role of neutral observer. She began to weave white cu

