The moment the cosmic guardian's true nature began to reveal itself through the dimensional barriers that had once seemed like absolute boundaries, all three of them—Zara with her completed inheritance, Shia in her Golden Sunset, and Reed in his Wounded Retreat—felt their consciousness stir with recognition that transcended every assumption they had made about the nature of cosmic evolution.
What was approaching wasn't just the architect of their limitations or the source of their inheritance. It was something far more profound: the living embodiment of the Tri-State Harmony that had always existed as the fundamental structure of reality itself, waiting for the universe to evolve enough to recognize its own essential nature.
