Chapter 101: Forcefully Grown

It hadn't fully sunk in yet, what Adam said. But it didn't have to, not with Chaos urging me on, throwing us physically-with my utter permission-against the threshold between Chaos and Life. Isis tried to keep us out, the power of her realm rejecting her forceful denial, however, reaching for me on its own and parting the way so I fell through flowers and sunshine and the burn of something tainted, landing with a full head of rage from the moment I looked up at the throne of Life to find Isis sitting there.

With her hands folded over her huge, distended stomach where a child grew.

She was due, so close from the feel of the realm, from Life's anxiety, though why Life felt so out of sync and unhappy I didn't know, couldn't yet comprehend. Not as the words Adam used tried to sort themselves out as the others of my group joined me at the foot of the throne under the spreading Tree of Life.