Three weeks had passed.
Inside the depths of his soul, Runar remained completely immersed in enlightenment. There had been no interruption, no fluctuation, and no moment of ordinary awareness that pulled him back to the outside world. His body floated in silence, golden-white light circulating around him in slow and sovereign waves, while everything he had ever gained was being refined into something greater than the sum of its parts. The process had continued without pause, deeper and more complete with every passing day, and the longer it continued, the more it became clear that this was no longer a normal breakthrough. It was a transformation of his entire existence.
