Noah understood exactly where he stood, and he let the cold certainty of it fill his voice.
"You think you're inside my body, growing into my foundation. You're not. You're merely inside my heart." He took a step toward the corpse's face.
"My heart...beats with Infinity, yes. But it beats even more with Quintessence, the irreducible essence of every single thing that exists. My identity is bound to my Infinity, and bound even tighter to my Quintessence. And what is held inside my Organ of Existence is mine, by the whole nature of what it is. It is for me to take."
He held the thing's stolen gaze without blinking.
