“The opposite direction? It hasn"t gone anywhere.”
Ondo peered closely at a spot upon the entity"s torso as if some explanation were written there, then stepped back. “I mean, an opposite evolutionary journey. My guess is that it started out as a rudimentary mechanism, or perhaps a hybrid lifeform, a guardian set to watch this system. Over time, it evolved. Its entropy-reversal technology, something like that built into the Radiant Dragon, means that it doesn"t die given sufficient energy inputs, and over a long period of time it has grown and learned, transcending what it was. It has become intelligent when once it was merely an automated system. That would explain why it doesn"t know the truth of its origins. Whether its ascent to sentience was supposed to happen, I don"t know. Perhaps
