The stars ahead no longer drifted in empty silence; they breathed. Kael could feel it now — not directly, but palpably, like the faint chirr of a palpitation just under the skin. It was subtle, intimate, and vast all at formerly. The Petal glided through this region not as an stranger, but as one honored. The macrocosm had opened, not just to be traveled through, but to be flashed back within. And in that remembering, commodity ancient stirred.