Gems of Existence crystallized from the authority flowing into him, shaped by his hatred and refined by his determination.
And Alexander began to flood these gems onto receptors that no entity of THE First Scale of Existence should be able to notice.
The Existential Nociceptors.
The Civilizational Afferents.
The Delta-Threads of Existence and the C-Fibers of Being.
The receptors that Beowulf had burned again and again across millions of years of torture, finding them and exploiting them and using them to deliver agony that exceeded anything Alexander had ever imagined possible.
Alexander did not forget them.
He had felt their locations burned into his awareness through repeated abuse. He knew exactly where they were now, knew their architecture and their pathways and their connections to his overall existence.
