There was a sudden burst of light, then nothing. On Vast Horizon drifted in an unending white void.

“There!” Ker shouted.

It was Dreanna. She was suspended in a sparkling beam of energy, head down, motionless. Her eyes raised slowly to look at the ship. A white surface materialized several feet below her instantly expanding outward, to infinity.

“Set the ship down but keep the engines running” Eric said.

Land. Ker barely completed the thought before he found himself standing before the entity.

“Who are you?” Eric demanded, no longer in corporeal form.

“I am the Dreamer and the Dream. The Creator and the Created. Omega, Alpha, the Beginning of the End, the End of the Beginning.”

“What do you want?”

“Unity. You. Complete the circle.”

“What circle?”

“The circle is unbroken.”

“I don’t understand.”

“This world now egg, your weapon, sperm” Dreanna stretched out her hand, a small opalescent orb appeared above it.

“The singularity!”

“Take the orb, complete the circle!“