She said these words calmly and with a smile as if she was discussing something light, as if they were talking about their day rather than the revelation that she had already attempted to convert him into whatever she now was.
Noah's solemn expression remained as he gazed at this being.
He looked at her figure, at the form that still resembled the Absolute he had encountered in the simulation and here.
She still had the same features, the same posture, the same way of holding herself with casual authority that suggested she knew secrets no one else could perceive.
But her eyes were different.
Where before there had been calculation and ambition and hunger for power, now there was something else entirely. A serenity that seemed almost peaceful. A calm that transcended normal emotion. As if whatever she had become no longer experienced fear or doubt or uncertainty.
As if she had been freed from the limitations of individual existence.
