POV: Ember
I was dreaming.
But not really. Dreams weren't this clear. Weren't this real.
I stood in a place that shouldn't exist. A space between spaces. Where everything that could be and nothing that was met and merged.
The threads were everywhere.
Not invisible like usual. Not hidden behind reality's curtain.
Here, they were physical. Glowing lines of possibility stretching in every direction. Gold for joy. Red for pain. Black for endings. White for beginnings.
Billions of them. Trillions. All tangled together in an impossible knot.
"Beautiful, isn't it?"
I turned.
The Primordial stood behind me. But different here. Less monstrous. More... understandable.
Like seeing a picture come into focus.
"You're in my head," I said.
"I'm in the space where thoughts become reality, whe
