Chapter 205
The universe was divided into two ends: positive and negative. Oliver felt the divide as if it were a chasm stretching endlessly beyond what his eyes could see—a separation that no mortal could ever hope to cross. The people who resided in the positive region could not detect or see the things belonging to the negative region; they could only perceive its existence.
Such was the case with the other side as well.
This was similar to how matter and antimatter were speculated by people to represent the opposing ends of the universe—two halves of a whole, constantly at odds, bound by laws far older than the stars themselves. Opposites that could never touch, separated by an unseen divide that even the greatest of powers could not cross freely.
The two regions, positive and negative, could never interact or meet. The forces at play were far too great, the consequences too cataclysmic. This was the core principle of the universe.