The battlefield in the Transcendent Origin Folds was a distant, silent storm on the horizon of Noah's perception, a problem for another version of himself.
Here, in the serene, golden light of the Radiant Shore, a different kind of harvest was underway.
His gaze, no longer titanic in scale but still carrying the weight of more than a Quadrillion, shifted from the contemplative quiet of his own thoughts to the vibrant, chaotic life of his domain.
He turned his attention to the Leviathan's Eternum Cage.
Within the crystalline walls of the Aquarium, a new prisoner raged. It was the Kleos Early Living Marine Lifeform his Weave had ensnared, a creature of the deep, dark places between Folds where light was a forgotten myth!
It was a type of abyssal fish, its body a masterpiece of evolutionary brutality. Its scales were like overlapping plates of polished obsidian, and its eyes were baleful, crimson lanterns that burned with a furious, maddened light.
