The next three weeks were simultaneously the best and worst of Elias's existence.
He had put aside all research, all business matters, all optimization calculations. The Vance Corporation ran on automated systems. The disciples handled security. The multiverse could manage without his attention for a few short weeks.
Everything focused on family.
They did things Elias had never made time for before. Aria wanted to explore the most dangerous regions of the multiverse, so he took her to see the Probability Wastes where reality was thin and causality optional. She laughed as they walked through storms of conflicting timelines, holding his hand as they navigated spaces where past, present, and future existed simultaneously.
"This is amazing!" she exclaimed, existing in seventeen temporal states at once. "Is the Infinity Realm like this?"
"I don't know. That's what I intend to discover."
