Unending Finality
A handful of mirrors across Dendrus IV shifted their reflections back onto Thanatos. There, Godeater peered at the massive void that used to be a ship. It went down every passageway and room, through every module and system, into every weapon and chitin plate, and into the bridge.
All was dark and covered in its shadow, and had long since been converted. What they were no longer existed.
It confirmed that there were no signs of life aboard, digitally or biologically or anything in between.
Regardless, there Freya was, like a flame amidst the darkness. Defiant and radiating.
“You are persistent,” said Godeater.
Its voice boomed all around and within, and bathed its sweeping darkness ubiquitously across the galaxy. Across every galaxy.
“And also a credit to your Fractal Universe,” it continued. “Your singularity has managed to cause my instruction sets to halt three times now. No other singularity has achieved as much.”