Achilles floated in perfect stillness, his consciousness expanded beyond the boundaries of flesh and bone, drinking in the majesty of space that surrounded him on all sides.
Five minutes.
It had been exactly five minutes since he had crossed the threshold, since he had left behind the sheltered confines of his home plane to embrace the infinite cathedral of space!
Five minutes of steady, uninterrupted assimilation of Space, his being drawing in the very fabric of reality without the crushing weight of Existence Corruption that had once threatened to tear him apart.
And then, in the space between one heartbeat and the next, everything changed.
The transformation began as a whisper of light deep within his core, a gentle luminescence that pulsed in rhythm with something far greater than his physical heart.
His blood sang first.
Every drop, every cell, every microscopic component of his life force suddenly blazed with concentrated starlight!
HUUM!
