CHAPTER 61: THE MOMENT REALITY LOSES ITS DIRECTION
The First Hunger no longer experienced itself as a system breaking apart or evolving beyond its limits, it now existed as a field of mutually incompatible realities that all claimed equal legitimacy without any shared framework for deciding priority. Rowan felt this not as chaos, but as directional collapse: the loss of any agreed orientation between states of existence. Causality had already fractured; now intention itself was dissolving into parallel expressions that no longer pointed toward a unified outcome. Every action, every thought, every structural adjustment the Hunger attempted produced multiple divergent interpretations of what that adjustment meant. Rowan stood at the center of this directional void, where even “forward” had
