CH541 Evil Gods and Eldritch Horrors Part Three

When the walls of its reality fell to dust, the creature that had been trapped within it was instantly faced with so much more than its previous existence could have prepared it for.

There was shock. After spending the whole of its existence filling all available space, the fact that it didn’t instantly expand to the new endless volume around it came as a surprise, even if there was no reason to assume it would. It was just what it was used to, the idea that it wasn’t going to get to experience everything around it all at once seemed almost unnatural.

Through that feeling of surprise though was something else, something it hadn’t experienced before and could barely understand, even if it was growing to know that it didn’t like it. It was feeling pain.

As confined as it had been, it was a creature of a universe, born to a reality with its own set of rules which it had lived under for the entirety of its being, but now that was over. It was in the primordial chaos, its body being swarmed by infinitely shifting rules with nothing to protect it, each change twisting and warping its form in ways it couldn’t know or understand, only granted the small mercy that was its limited knowledge. Due to the reality it had been born into, it barely understood itself in a way that others would find meaningful, freeing it from the horror that being so changed would have otherwise caused it, and as it slowly adapted, the pain subsided.

It wasn’t just growing accustomed to the chaos, without knowing it, it was forcing its rules on the space around it, the nature of its lost reality providing just a bit of structure that the endless void had lacked, keeping it safe from the greatest of dangers of its new environment and with that bit of peace, leaving it with a question it had never gotten to ask itself before.

What to do? With an infinite expanse before it, for the first time in its life it had options beyond just carrying on, options it wanted to explore while it suffered under that newfound freedom. If it could do anything then where would it start?

Time wore on as it struggled under that freedom of choice, but eventually it picked randomly. There was something off in the distance that it would explore first and it decided to make its way over.

…It first just needed to figure out how to move.

After it realized that the straining it had done to help break its reality could propel it further, the expanse opened up to it as it stretched out to its target, ages passing as it made its way there.

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