Cosmic Conundrums

|The name's Ranus.

Nice to meet you, Progenitor godslayer.|

When Ranus revealed his identity as the Eternal of Space and Reality, Arthur simply stared at him in silence before saying.

"Oh, then I suppose this is about Bewússtsein, isn't it? I see, makes perfect sense." 

His reaction was calm. Too calm.

So calm that Ranus just blinked at him, momentarily dumbfounded. Then, with a snap of his fingers, reality froze—everything and everyone around them coming to an abrupt halt.

[You're reacting a lot less intensely than I expected,] Ranus remarked, eyeing him curiously. 

Arthur tilted his head, blinking in apparent confusion as he asked. "Ah, did you perhaps expect me to—"