Prologue 2: Awareness --------------------- Void. Emptiness. Silence. An entity ponders what it feels. Nothing. No sight. No hearing. No touch. No taste. No smell. No pleasure. No pain. But an awareness. An awareness that there is nothing. Void. Forever. How long has it been like this? No sense of time. Time doesn't pass. Having just arrived, and been here forever. No time, no space. Void. Why is the entity here? Unaware. Always here. Never here. Nothing exists in this place. If this is place. Do I exist? I believe I exist. I could be wrong. Just in case I will go back to not identifying myself. What is there, if there is nothing? What is the entity that is called 'I'? There is no knowledge. There is no power. There is no me. No I. Just void. And... And... There *is* something... It grows. It was small, but it pushes at the edge of the void, filling it. It stretches the boundaries of infinity, threatning to break through. It is one thing. Hate.