I found you.

I tamed you.

I reinforced you.

We began together.

We dimmed together.

We prepared for return into the Superluminal.

They call it “life after death.” But what is life, if not a waveform? And what is a waveform, if not decay? The Second Death does not preserve. It does not reward. It does not remember. It is the Sovereign’s silence. And I am its vanguard.