Through the gateway he glimpsed the collapse of his universe: stars snuffed like dying embers. Black holes evaporating like droplets of water striking red-hot lava. Massive galaxies unwinding themselves into smaller galaxies that had collided eons earlier. One tableau after another of the impossible… all united by one common factor: Inestimable sentient pain. Trillions of quadrillions of lives being ended without warning or mercy. Cosmic eruptions of terror and sorrow. An endless wellspring of suffering and fear. Before it, the Devidians gorged themselves on the lamentations of the dying and
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