His masterwork was the , a spiral arm so perfectly pitched that it sang a C-sharp across the electromagnetic spectrum. For ten billion years, civilizations rose and fell to the rhythm of his breath. They called him the Demiurge of the Vibrato . II. The Discordant Note The other StarMakers grew envious. Not of his power, but of his intimacy with creation. Arvus did not simply order matter; he suffered with it. When a protostar collapsed too early, he felt the grief of a parent. When a supernova seeded heavy elements, he wept tears of iridium.
The StarMakers say it is interference.
It is Arvus. Still trying. Thus ends the Broken Chord. Thus begins every attempt.
His masterwork was the , a spiral arm so perfectly pitched that it sang a C-sharp across the electromagnetic spectrum. For ten billion years, civilizations rose and fell to the rhythm of his breath. They called him the Demiurge of the Vibrato . II. The Discordant Note The other StarMakers grew envious. Not of his power, but of his intimacy with creation. Arvus did not simply order matter; he suffered with it. When a protostar collapsed too early, he felt the grief of a parent. When a supernova seeded heavy elements, he wept tears of iridium.
The StarMakers say it is interference.
It is Arvus. Still trying. Thus ends the Broken Chord. Thus begins every attempt.