The entity's revelation came not in words but in direct knowledge transfer, consciousness flowing from the predator into the merged being like water pouring into an empty vessel.
The barrier between dimensions wasn't a wall designed to protect. It was a seal designed to contain. And the things that were contained were not threats from beyond. They were the seeds of creation itself.
Billions of years ago, before the current universe took its present form, there had been a different reality. A reality where consciousness existed in forms that the current human mind could never comprehend. Those forms of consciousness had achieved something that should not have been possible. They had learned to create universes. To design realities. To shape existence according to will.
And they had becom
