Five Years Later
Aria Vance was five years old, and the multiverse had learned to fear her in an entirely different way than it feared her father.
Where Elias inspired terror through his absolute power and willingness to erase threats from existence, Aria inspired a kind of existential dread through sheer unpredictability. She had all the reality-warping power of a Universe God—now actually touching the threshold of Multiversal Realm—combined with the impulse control of a curious child who had been told "no" far too many times.
"Father, I want to go outside," Aria announced one morning, her violet-silver eyes gleaming with mischief.
Elias looked up from the complex array of equations he'd been working on—his continued pursuit of Quantum Law mastery and the designs of a new dantian.
