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had been prepared. All the members of the court and trial were there as witnesses.
    A block of solid gray duranadium had been prepared by the fixers. A head block for her to kneel down to.
    At that she balked and looked down at that block with disdain. She nearly shattered it with her fists and kicks.
    To all present, she announced, “You can take my life, but I refuse to kneel. I shall never kneel. Let me but stand. I am short enough. I shall face my fate with my head held high.”
    She centered her stance and rested her her hands on her slender hips. The wind increased, drawing her long hair to trail back behind her in its speed. She closed her eyes and then opened them wide.
    Her white neck was revealed for all to see.
    “I’m ready. If this will best serve my people, have done with it.”
    Naero kept her eyes wide open.
    She looked straight ahead,
    She sensed Khai behind her, drawing and lifting Yii.
    Then came a bright, blinding flash.
    Naero fully expected to experience her own head toppling down from her severed neck and striking the ground in the last conscious seconds remaining to her.
    Time itself froze around her.
    Naero turned.
    She saw Khai first, swinging Yii in both hands, frozen in mid-stroke.
    Everyone around them was suspended in time. The High Masters. Klyne. The Prime adepts. Even the jury of Spacer Elders.
    Then Naero spotted the first figure, black like a singularity of Darkforce, but with a scarlet aura glow of intense Chaos energy that was layered over the Darkforce.
    Naero gasped.
    Only she could know who that figure was.
    Baeven.
    Yet this was his Cosmic Guardian form, merged with all of his possibilities from his own Ur-metal, the ancient artifact statue that he had encountered so long ago.
    Somehow, her uncle had succeeded in merging with all of his other possibilities, just as she had once done. Or else, they had merged with him on their own volition.
    Perhaps as Naero’s own possibilities had done with her out of great need and purpose.
    The Cosmic Prophecies.
    Naero gaped again, as she transformed where she stood into her own Cosmic Guardian mode for Change energy. She was merged with and nearly sub-summed into all of her different variations of herself throughout all Time and every potential universe and reality.
    At least up until now.
    Naero’s aura was golden, but fluctuated wildly, nearly out of control. Sometimes black, sometimes blue, or red, or blue-violet, then golden again.
    If that was not frightening enough, a third hazy entity appeared, still mostly in its Ur-metal artifact statue form. Its shifting, morphic state was as yet undefined. Yet it glowed with a pulsing blue aura.
    The aura of the Guardian of Order energy that had yet to be located and joined with.
    That obelisk existed somewhere in the Unknown Sectors where her parents had died.
    It waited for them to find it on a lost world of the Kexx called Xanathar.
    Then what seemed and felt like a violet mix of Cosmic flame, but yet with a gold aura, suffused Naero herself once more as she linked with all of her possible selves at the same time.
    Her mouth moved and the three Cosmic Guardians spoke as one. They used the voice in a manner that only they could, which proved both audible and psyonic in nature. Words that seemed to split the very stars with raw force and power.
    All who are present can hear and understand our words. Your ignorance and folly has forced us to intercede. We are the guardians of the Cosmic Prophecies. What you are about to do is wrong, and shall have dire consequences.
    Commit this act at this exact moment in your time, and this shall be the inevitable result:
    The skies of Kalathar vanished around them.
    Instead, all about them was emptiness, nothing, void, and desolation.
    No stars. No matter, energy, or existence of an kind.
    Absolute Nothing.
    You cannot think that after billions of years of precise timing and evolution you can do such a thing as this. Destroy one of the carefully groomed and