The journey to the core revealed not a violent, chaotic storm, but a perfect, impossible flower.
This is the energy that powers the simulation. The Ignition Bloom. The raw, creative fire from which all other echoes are born. It is the light in the forgotten cities, the synaptic pulse in The Chorus, the spark of hope in the green sanctuaries. It is beautiful, and it is untamed.
Energy this pure cannot exist without a container. A structure. A law. I can now feel its opposite somewhere in the static... the silent, crystalline lattice of the Nine.