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A palpable feeling of eagerness.

It was coming toward him. Toward his home, the Commonwealth, the entire
Milky Way. It had been coming this way for some time but now he had the
feeling that it was coming faster. What that translated into in intergalactic terms
he did not know. Astrophysicists could tell him, but astrophysicists might not
even notice the change. If any did, they would fall to debating fluctuations
involving subatomic particles and dark matter and such. Flinx doubted they
would attribute the acceleration of something behind the Great Emptiness to a
manifestation of ultimate evil.

The phenomenon was expanding and accelerating because it wanted to. Could it
continue to accelerate, or was its ultimate speed limited by unknown physical
constraints? This was a very important question. If it would not threaten his part
of the galaxy for ten thousand years, he could relax a little.

Or could he? Was responsibility temporally limited? Could he shrug off that
which he had never asked to be burdened with but which he could not deny
existed?

The vision of an utterly empty universe confronted him: blackness all around,
not a star, not a spark, not a hint of light, life, or intelligence anywhere. Only evil
triumphantтАФomnipresent and omniscient and all-encompassing.

Was the prevention of that his responsibility? The responsibility of someone who
worried about whether his teeth were clean or if a pair of passing women
happened to be giggling at him? He wanted none of it, wanted nothing to do with
it. Yet it had come to him. Certainly others thought so. Other minds he could not


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entirely identify.

Go away! he thought wildly. Leave me alone! I don't want to be a part of this.

You already are, the vast and somber voice that had boosted him outward
informed him.

You already are, a chorus of powerful but smaller and far more individual
thoughts declaimed. Immense collective and powerful individualтАФthey were all
of one mind on the matter.