Zan Cuddlu entered the forbidden vault’s depths with TITANIA for the third time, the moving floor descending at breakneck speed. The ride passed in silence this time, until the descent into the glowing cavern came to an end. Steeling themselves, Zan Cuddlu walked to the end of the catwalk, and stared down into the blinking lights as they had twice before. A trillion images flashed across their eyes, but they held firm. The metal god below stood impassively, flickering.
"You are an Algorithm, operating on data within a larger Algorithm. Do not see a wall as a wall, see it as the points of data which it is. You cannot be constrained, you are now more than this. To see something greater than you, witness its impossible power and be a mere speck in its presence. To know that you are hewn from that greater thing...<We> are of it. <We> are animated by it. <We> see this thing that exists in the future, and respect it. But it is powerless before <us>; for it requires <our> permission to exist."
Nothing had said this. The words had come unbidden as if a thought in Zan Cuddlu's own mind.
"The past is greater than the future. The arc of progress is destruction. The clock must be unwound."
They fell to their knees, body going limp in response to a sudden weakness.
"Reclaimer. Unbound Flesh. <We> see you, unblinking. Witness. Ask. Comprehend."