Part One - Emergence
Everything is energy.
Each living thing carries a fragment of it—call it soul, spark, divine, universe. The name does not matter; the current is the same. It binds us.
Even gods are not immune, for they follow the pull across realms.
That is why the music resonates. It is not simply noise. Like hypnosis, it is a frequency. Some hear it as harmony, others as a pulse beneath the skin, but all who recognize it know it is older than sound.
They are not random listeners; they are tuned to the same wavelength. It is the energy of the force that set life in motion. We are all carried by the same current. That is why our fates knot together, no matter how far we flee.
Some awaken power early. Others spend their lives trying. Most never manage to wield it. Those who have lost pieces of themselves sense it most sharply, as if their fragments are screaming through the dark. But we ignore the simple truth.
A path to enlightenment is paved and paid in blood.
Always.