Strength of Character Stretch

Chapter 1 Possibility stood where space curved tightest, her mantle woven from speed-of-light constants and the cold, unyielding precision of gravity. She was everything that could happen, waiting in the silence of unwritten math. Then came Chance—not with a roar, but with a cautious, swirling drift, trailing questions and probabilities. "You move as if you fear breaking the vacuum," Possibility said, her voice resonant as a pulsar's heartbeat. "If I move too fast," Chance wh

Some might call it the will of God, the innermost core of our existence, but dark matter, measurable only by its grasp of matter, was alone, perhaps even lonely, and matter was without form. Before anything had a name, the universe leaned forward and held its breath— a vast, trembling hush where dark matter was solitary, if there was any other it knew it not, invisible, unspoken, while ordinary matter, a void, every unborn particle pressed tight against the edge of what it l