Noah took all of it in.
He processed the information in layers!
First layer: beings from the future. This was the most significant piece because it implied his existence's trajectory produced consequences severe enough that entities in that future considered temporal travel a proportionate response.
Second... they'd kidnapped anomalies from other Observable Existences to build a fucking existential squad. Specialized tools for a specialized target. Third...at least two of their tools, Taylor and this Adrastia, had independently decided they didn't want to participate and were approaching him with defection as their opening offer.
He looked at Taylor.
She was a ruler of an Observable Existence. A Bounded Lifeform who'd done what he was doing from a different direction, climbing past the limitations imposed by her starting classification and arriving at a position that shouldn't have been available to her. This alone made her more interesting than many.
