Pattern

Floating alone in the endless void, Rahll is a fragment of an ancient, crystal‑like network of sentient electrical currents that once thrived in perfect unity. After a devastating cataclysm tore the Great Pattern apart, he has drifted for millennia, his once‑bright form now a jagged, starving echo of its former self, desperate to find another impulse to sustain his fading existence.

When a faint, unfamiliar signal finally brushes his edge, Rahll reaches out, only to discover a new, complex entity composed of five distinct channels of perception—light, vibration, scent, taste and temperature—radiating from a central hub. As he begins to decipher these alien sensations, the story explores what it means to be a pattern of thought, the hunger for connection, and the fragile hope that even the most broken fragments can find meaning in an unfamiliar universe.