Ark: seed of the source

Previously

…“The world teeters still, but it has found its footing. The Source is protected. Our work, however, is only beginning. We must now build the true Ark, not of wood or metal, but of trust, across the shattered remnants of creation.” Elara returned the nod, a faint, exhausted smile touching her lips. Around them, the few remaining soldiers began to organize, their exhaustion tempered by the impossible knowledge that they had survived the end of everything, standing alongside a fallen god who had chosen to become, once more, a guardian. The echoes of Eden were distant, but the promise of a future, hard-won and fiercely protected, had finally begun to bloom on the scarred earth.