The heavens answered as eighteen hundred Tesseracts fell out of the gold at once, streaming down in long blue-white lines toward the cliff, and they did not scatter or crash, they came to him, gathering into a vast slow orbit around his body, hundreds upon hundreds of folded hypercubes turning through the air in nested rings, their light washing the cliff and the river and the orchards in deep cerulean, and the whole realm hummed with the pressure of that much beginning held in one place!
Noah stood in the middle of his own storm of seeds, and turned to his daughter.
"Seo-yeon."
She looked up at him with wide shining eyes, and he reached into the orbit and drew out nine.
They drifted across to her, one after another, settling into a small ring around her, and their light lit her face blue as she stared at them.
