"…We believe that a Great Truth Chosen once ended the universe."
Robin's brows furrowed, his voice sharp with disbelief. "Do you have any evidence to support that claim?"
"Not conclusive evidence," the old man admitted, slowly shaking his head. "Only a trail of speculation woven from pieces of reality. Using certain cosmic laws, we can determine the age of stone itself—and some planets in the mid-belt are as old as billions of years. Are we truly to believe the universe floated in barren silence for eons, just chunks of rock adrift in the void—until we suddenly emerged only 97.8 million years ago, in all planets, and at the same time?! Why is that entire era completely missing from all record?"
