This is the battle within the [Gap], but Lorenzo has no interest in fighting right now; all he can think about is finding a way out.
Blood smeared his face; in the instant of his exchange with Ed, Lorenzo understood that he simply couldn't compete against him. It was likely that what Watson had encountered when she wrote to him was also such an eerie existence.
A ghost existing for millennia, drifting within the [Gap].
Lorenzo couldn't imagine how vast the knowledge in Ed's mind must be after all those years, or how deep his ascension was.
Of course, the most crucial thing was Ed's identity, as a Watcher, the only being with autonomous consciousness Lorenzo has encountered so far. Perhaps he was the founder of the Watchers.
So, the fence... or rather, what on earth lies beneath the Well of Ascension?
