THE Beholder observed the Infinity-bearer and his army with interest that had not faded since their initial appearance.
It was genuinely pleasant to witness Infinity again after so many eons of its absence from Observable Existence. The blue-gold light that burned within those four hundred Absolutes carried echoes of that age of nothingness, faint glimmers of what had existed before differentiation and undifferentiation learned to produce complex life.
The endless nature that defined what the Infinity-bearer wielded, all of it stirred memories that THE Beholder had not accessed in spans of time that complex life could not meaningfully comprehend.
But as he watched the demonstration against the Undivided One and the Formless Terrors, as he observed how the Infinity-bearer deployed his forces and directed their Infinite authorities toward combat and consumption, THE Beholder found himself experiencing something approaching disappointment.
