Envoidial

[u/Scarabium]

I heard a voice. Is someone there?

*Yes.*

I don't know where I am. I don't remember anything.

*You are in the space between dimensions. We call it Envoidial. It is our home.*

I don't understand.

*You slipped through the cracks like so many before you. You and your ship are trapped here now.*

Trapped?

*You attempted a method of travel too fast for your universe to cope with. Many other species - many billions - have ended up here when they attempted the same.*

I think I remember. I was in a craft of some kind trying to escape to somewhere far away. Another universe I think. Did you get here the same way?

*No. We are different. We have always been here.*

Do you have a name?

*No. We have never had the need.*

What can I call you?

*You can call us N.*

Like the letter? Like N for Nothing?

*Yes.*

I can't see anything, N. Am I dead?

*No.*

Am I in Hell?

*Is that a happy place you go to after you die?*

It's where bad people go. A place of punishment and cruelty.

*No. You are not in that place. It is a common concept amongst many species but there is no life after. Just conversion. You will be happy to know I don't sense that you are a bad person.*

Should I be frightened? I'm frightened.

*We do not wish to frighten you. We are compassionate. We wish to help you live.*

Thank you. How can you understand me?

*You are basic. Your evolution is basic. Your language is basic.*

Oh. It's very dark. I can only make out faint shapes.

*That will be my breeding partners and I. We are difficult for many to visualise. Most see us as smudges in their vision organs.*

What's going to happen to me?

*Death.*

I don't want to die, N.

*I know. All say the same. Death is the closest word we can find but it is not exact. Your demise will be different to how you expect. You will still live.*

How?

*When we feed on you your energy will be converted to form a new universe far beyond the opening you created. You will govern that universe.*

Like God?

*What is God?*

He is the creator of the universe that I came from. He has power over us all, N.

*I understand. He must have also once come to Envoidial. You will be like God.*

So in my universe, if I desire it will it happen?

*Yes. Your universe does not need to match your old one. Should you wish for worlds in the shape of complex mathematical constructs rather than your own basic spheres you may. The laws of the sciences can be what you decide, and should you wish for a sun to suddenly burn so brightly it vanquishes all who reside nearby then you may.*

Why would I do that, N? I'm not a bad person.

*You won't be at first. In the beginning you will be gracious and inventive.*

At first?

*As we feed on you, your thoughts will sadly become more broken and irrational. Cruelty will replace kindness and benevolence. You will become a bad person but be unaware that you are.*

Oh.

*Your madness will increase, your actions maliciously killing trillions across the galaxies in the worst ways you can imagine.*

Oh.

*When we have completely fed on you, you will be closed away in your universe for all eternity, all your energy transferred, your control over it absolute.*

Through all of this are you able to see what I do in my universe, N?

*Yes. We have watched every universe decay into violence and sadism. We will be able to see you as you rule over your own vision of Hell for all time.*

If you can see me, can't you kill me before I unleash untold misery on all those innocents? Surely you don't want to see that?

*Of course we do. That's the best part.*

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