The violet-crystal nebula slowly churned through the darkness like an overturned palette, only to be shrouded by a shadow that blotted out the sky and sun the very next second.
The Star-Devouring Beast's head slowly emerged from a fold in the void. It had no fixed outline; only jaws covered in dark-gold scales constantly opened and closed, each wriggle twisting the surrounding Star Orbits.
Its left eye was a burning star, its right a frozen black hole. Wherever its gaze swept, three asteroids instantly turned to dust.
The Star-Devouring Beast's eyes remained fixed on the blue-green life-bearing planet not far away.
Without any warning, the Star-Devouring Beast's jaws abruptly gaped open. Within a mouth large enough to contain half a galaxy were countless spinning spacetime vortices. Its saliva became liquid dark matter, each drop smashing tiny black holes into the void.
It slowly lowered itself, and the scales along the edges of its jaws brushed against the planet's atmosphere, instantly igniting swathes of aurora.
Yet the once-dazzling radiance was devoured the instant it touched those scales, becoming part of the vortices within its mouth.
When its teeth touched the planet's surface, there was no earthshaking explosion, only a bizarre "melting away."
Fangs gleaming with metallic luster pierced the Arctic glaciers. The ice did not shatter, but was sliced by the teeth like cream, swept into the mouth along with hibernating polar bears beneath it and ancient bacteria buried in the permafrost.
Then the jaws pushed forward. Teeth crushed across the grasslands of Eurasia, and herds of running antelope were dragged toward the mouth by invisible gravity before they could even leap.
The dewdrops on their fur froze into ice crystals before entering the vortex, only to be ground into particles alongside the antelopes' skeletons by the spacetime whirlpool the next