The Pioneerer’s lips curled upward, his gaze as calm as an ancient pool, and he spoke softly: "True. We are not living beings, but rather the manifestation of concepts.
"In the beginning, there was nothing. Like the place we occupy now—no time, no space, no matter, nothing at all...
When the desire to 'observe' first arose, the concept of 'attainability' brought forth space. We craved the vibration of 'listening,' so the trajectories of sound waves wove the warp and weft of the void. We sought the instinct of 'tracing origins,' wanting to know what had transpired, and thus time began to flow.
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