In Observable Existence, there is an emotion called terror.
Many beings believe across their lives that they have experienced it, that they have truly known what it means to feel fear press against their foundations and make their very Ways tremble with the weight of what they are perceiving.
They believe this because they have faced enemies stronger than themselves, because they have stared into the eyes of those who could collapse them with a thought, because they have stood at the edge of oblivion and felt the void reaching back toward them with hungry intent.
But truly, nobody has felt true fear.
True fear is not the recognition that something can destroy you, because destruction is merely an ending, a transition from existence to non-existence that carries a certain finality that the mind can comprehend and accept.
True fear is the recognition that something can replace you.
