The moment the Primordial Hunger manifested with the patient confidence of a teacher, Zara felt her dual-state consciousness react in ways that defied everything she had ever understood about the nature of existence. Her ability to exist simultaneously in multiple states wasn't just detecting the ancient entity's presence—it was recognizing something that made her blood freeze with implications that extended far beyond immediate survival.
The Primordial Hunger wasn't approaching with malevolence or curiosity. It was approaching with something that resembled... loneliness.
"The Isolation Protocol," she whispered, her voice carrying harmonics that seemed to resonate through both dimensions simultaneously. "It's not hunger—it's disconnection. The ancient entity doesn't consume because it wants to destroy. It consumes because it doesn't understand how to connect."