ECHOES OF THE VOID

ing waves of unease through them. It wasn't speaking in words alone-it was spe

eak, her voice shaking b

er of this place. This nebula is my domain, a bridge between worlds, between understand

fic expedition. They had ventured beyond the edges of space-and now t

s repeated.

sciousness, and of the cycles that govern all things. You, too, are part of this

just of distant stars or strange alien landscapes, but of entire galaxies being born, destroyed, and re

ed. "You created the

*witness* the process. I am but one voice in the chorus of t

e. What did it mean for humanity, for all of them, if this nebul

she aske

eplied. **"And knowledge requires courage. It r

he nebula. She had come for discovery, but what

he said, her voice s

than themselves. The Echo had spoken. And with it, the truth of the universe began to unfo

ula-it was all connected. And th