The being of pure curiosity, in its boundless exploration, brushed against the consciousness of the translator-of-feeling.
The translator, a being woven from the raw emotion of the cosmos, recoiled for a microsecond, not from fear, but from the sheer intensity of the question.
It was a question that was not spoken, but felt, a query that was not about information, but about potential.
’What is next?’ the curiosity asked, its ’voice’ a symphony of a million possibilities played at once.
And the translator, for the first time, did not have an answer.