Adam sat cross legged in his cell, and he concentrated. 

     How many times had he done this? A million? Two million? It didn't matter. He'd do it a billions times if that's what it took. The last hundred or so times he'd detonated himself, he'd noticed an extra half second's worth of freedom before being recaptured.

     He was wearing them down.

     He sensed their defenses thinning.  

     Okay, he thought. Let's go for a really big one this time, my biggest detonation yet. 

     He began to refill himself with surrounding energies when...

​     Eyeblink. 

     His prisons disappeared. 

     He found himself on a platform surrounded by entities. 

​     Adam recognized the red flame entity. 

     One entity looked vaguely human, although several billions times larger.

      Another entity definitely did not look human but, instead, resembled a serpent with four human-like arms. 

​      There was an entity made of ice. 

      One entity consisted of lightning and smoke. 

      One entity consisted of swirling circuitry. 

      There was an entity made of sunshine and stars. 

      There was an entity made of multitudes writhing and crying out in agony. 

      Overhead, other entities hovered and fluttered. 

       Adam sensed rather than saw entities that remained invisible. 

      Other entities danced in his mind. 

       Adam heard a voice, he had no idea whose, ask, "What do you want?" 

       "I want my daughter," Adam replied. "I watched her be born just before I was jailed." 

     Eyeblink. 

     Adam no longer stood alone. 

    His son, Hedik, now stood on the other side of the platform.

    Although, now, he looked nothing like the Hedik that once led a clone army against the Azure. 

     No. He'd chosen to take the form of a female.

     She called herself Adam Adama.    

     In Adam Adama's arms, wrapped in a soft, pink blanket, was their child.

     Adama smiled.

     "Hi Dad," she said.   

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