Layer upon layer of "ripples" spread through the void, as though celebrating the birth of the universe.
The cluster of information born from the singularity's eruption rapidly evolved. Its information continually became more complete and self-consistent, while its structure steadily grew whole and vast.
She quietly remained at the side, watching all of this unfold with curiosity.
It was like an ordinary occurrence in the void, yet to her, it was something entirely new. Everything within the void ought to be capable of stirring her curiosity.
At some unknown point, she began to think.
She pondered the cause of a world's birth, and why worlds came into being within the void.
She did not know the answer, nor was there any life that could give her one.
In this place of absolute nothingness, there was only her and the universe that had just been born before her. There was nothing else.
Yet she had a feeling that she was not alone in the void.
She simply had yet to find the existence of other life.
Time gradually passed. She did not know how she had come to understand the concept of time, just as she did not know why she had been born. These questions could not be answered.
Perhaps a long time had passed, or perhaps it had been only an instant.
Time was relative at all times, let alone in the void, where there was no such thing as time to begin with. What mattered was only how she perceived it.
She had been born of the void, and the void was the place of her birth. Naturally, she possessed the authority to wield Void Energy, and Void Energy was the origin of all things.
The universe grew ever more complete, and the "volume" it occupied in the