The Prime Reality was nothing like Reed had imagined. Instead of some grand celestial architecture or divine landscape, they had emerged into what appeared to be an infinite library—if a library could be constructed from living tissue and quantum mathematics. Shelves that weren't shelves stretched endlessly in all directions, containing not books but crystalline nodes pulsing with information too dense for human comprehension.
Reed's transformed body reacted violently to this environment. The blood from his empty eye sockets now flowed upward, defying gravity, forming complex patterns in the air before dissipating into the atmosphere. The Fragment embedded in his chest had grown tendrils that burrowed deeper into his flesh, sending waves of agony and enlightenment through his nervous system in equal measure.
"Where... are we?" Eliana managed to gasp, her fused arm twitching spasmodically, resonating with the strange energies permeating this space.
