And then, there was light.
But that was a long, long time ago—or it could have been just a moment ago.
After all, if the Astrologers of Algraid are correct, the birth of this universe might have just happened not long ago—although for the time scale of all beings in the universe, it may have been "billions of years ago". Yet, for another time scale that transcends all things in the universe, billions of years are merely an insignificant parameter.
But who cares? At any rate, a senior student, who is busy completing their biology thesis and whose daily sleep has been reduced to less than six hours, definitely won't care about these "heavenly matters"—the next-door astronomy club might care, but that's a different story, their credits are tied to this.
Borno, clutching a stack of materials just borrowed from the library, hurried across the top walkway of the college city, his pace brisk as if stirring up a gust of wind.
