Noah's eyes became immensely sharp as he paid even more attention to Anaximander, the implications of these words sending his mind racing through countless possibilities and connections.
Anaximander looked saddened as he sighed with a sense of guilt that seemed to have been eating at him for eons.
"You cannot imagine the sense of guilt I felt," he continued, his voice heavy with regret that time had done nothing to diminish. "Because to me at that time, I had already met THE Creature. THE Creature was... a friend who had shown me kindness and curiosity about my unique nature. And I had effectively and unknowingly betrayed a friend by delivering the very weapon that would be used to wound him in ways that even now I do not fully understand."
THE Living Paradox had actually used Anaximander as a weapon against THE Creature.
