THUMP.
SEENEE stared toward Safsan.
The sound of his heart continued across the battlefield.
THUMP.
That energy...
SEENEE had never felt it before.
He knew Safsan.
Or at least...
he knew the story surrounding him.
He knew what had already happened.
He knew what should happen next.
But this?
This was different.
SEENEE narrowed his eyes.
“What are you?”
THUMP.
Before he could look deeper—
SEENEE froze.
Something had changed.
Not on the battlefield.
Not in Odania.
Somewhere much farther away.
His eyes slowly moved upward.
He felt it immediately.
Something had entered.
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Not this world.
Something much larger.
The multiverse itself.
For a moment, SEENEE forgot about Safsan.
Then he smiled slightly.
“You know...”
He looked directly at you.
“Yes.
You.”
A pause.
“I think this is a good time to introduce myself again.”
SEENEE straightened himself.
“My name is SEENEE.”
“I am the narrator.”
“That means I tell stories.”
“One at a time...”
He paused.
“Or many at once.”
The battlefield disappeared from his attention.
Something far greater seemed to unfold around him.
Worlds.
Countless worlds.
Some looked almost identical.
Others shared only fragments.
A person could make one decision in one world...
and another decision somewhere else.
A hero could survive in one story...
and die in another.
Someone feared in one universe could be forgotten in another.
Entire histories could change.
Entire civilizations could rise differently.
Even the stories themselves could exist in different forms.
SEENEE watched them all.
“There are other universes.”
“Other versions of stories I tell.”
“Different possibilities.”
“Different lives.”
“Different endings.”
His expression remained calm.
“I know their beginnings.”
“And I know their endings.”
More universes appeared.
Then more.
And more.
Until counting them became meaningless.
“The multiverse is infinite.”
SEENEE looked around.
“But do you know what makes infinity fascinating?”
Another universe appeared.
Then another.
Then thousands.
Millions.
The expansion never stopped.
“Infinite universes are being born constantly.”
“Every second.”
“Every division of time you could use to measure that second.”
“Again.”
“Again.”
“And again.”
With every new universe...
something changed within SEENEE.
His knowledge expanded.
“A new universe means a new story.”
“A new beginning.”
“New rules.”
“New possibilities.”
“And my knowledge grows with them.”
SEENEE raised his hand.
The endless worlds seemed to surround him.
“All of this...”
He looked across the infinity before him.
“I call Sirna.”
A pause.
“Sirna Multiverse.”
The name seemed small compared to what surrounded him.
An infinity that continued creating more infinity.
SEENEE smiled.
“I know a lot.”
Then his smile weakened slightly.
“But don't misunderstand me.”
“There are things even I don't know.”
His eyes shifted toward the place where he had felt the disturbance.
“And right now...”
“Something is moving beyond what I know.”
For once, there was no frustration in his voice.
There was curiosity.
Real curiosity.
“And I like that.”
SEENEE looked directly at the audience again.
“Even I can be curious.”
“Even I can find something I don't understand.”
He paused.
“Like you.”
His eyes remained on the reader.
“Yes.”
“You.”
“I know you are there.”
“But don't get excited.”
“I only know a little about you.”
A small smile returned.
“Very little, actually.”
He turned away.
Then stopped.
“Although there is one useful thing about my job.”
Something appeared in the distance.
Something new.
Something that had entered Sirna.
SEENEE watched it.
“You see...”
“I don't need to know what something is before it arrives.”
“I don't need to know where it came from.”
“I don't even need to know why it came.”
His expression became more serious.
“Because the moment something enters one of the stories I tell...”
A new story began forming.
SEENEE watched.
Information appeared where there had previously been none.
A beginning.
A history.
A story.
His eyes widened slightly.
Then he smiled.
“...a story is created for whatever entered.”
SEENEE looked toward it.
“So...”
A pause.
“Let's see what just came into Sirna.”