It wasn't the death of the universe that caused the despair—it was the lack of an ending. Without the "Certainty of the End," there was only the "Uncertainty of Now."
wept. If the effect no longer follows the cause, then no action has merit. 98 : Oh, Uncertainty! A Universe Despairs!!
In the Capital Spire of Aethelgard, the Grand Oracles watched as their quantum clocks began to tick backward—then sideways. Across the Andromeda fringe, stars didn't explode; they simply smudged into gray static, like ink dropped in an infinite ocean. It wasn't the death of the universe that
tore up their charts. How do you fuel a ship when hydrogen is only "sometimes" flammable? In the Capital Spire of Aethelgard, the Grand
"Oh, Uncertainty!" cried the High Archon before the Silence took him. "We feared the Dark, but the Dark was at least solid. We are now adrift in the Maybe, where the soul is a variable and the heart is a ghost."
Focus on "Cosmic Vertigo"—the feeling of falling when there is no floor.