In a place beyond everything, where time was not the relentless harbinger but a capricious child playing without regard, and where space folded in on itself curving precariously at impossible angles, there he found her. He had delved deep into the cosmos feverishly scouring for her, from the loneliest star hidden deep in the great expanses of the void, to the myriads of them crowded into the immense clusters at the heart of the galaxies, but it was only when he tore the fabric of reality, that he brought her to light... He held her gently by the waist, and as his hand pressed her alabaster skin over her dormant heart, he whispered solemnly... " For you, my long lost love, I sacrifice my life for the promise of your future... Arise!" As the last word was uttered , she gasped as deeply as if her first breath was her last, and after too many aeons to be counted, she wept...