For a good few minutes after Raymond shared with him the secrets about the laws governing the universe, Veyr just stood there stunned by the knowledge, his mind still struggling to process the sheer depth of what he had just heard.
The ideas circled in his thoughts like ripples on still water, each one unfolding into something larger, stranger, and more incomprehensible the longer he pondered them.
It was as though the world itself had grown wider around him, the walls of his understanding pushed back by the immensity of what Raymond had revealed.
For the first time, he realized that perhaps strength was not the only path to power, and that perhaps knowledge itself was a weapon far sharper, one that cut silently through the fabric of belief.
*Sigh*
He exhaled slowly, his lips curling faintly in reluctant admiration as he turned to glance at Raymond, who now stood calm and composed, as if the truth he had just shared were nothing but a casual thought.
