White brightness rose up the black beam until it reached the ark, then covered the ark like a second skin. 

     The ark brightened until it resembled the sun. 

     The brightness separated the ark from the black beam that was The Fours entering this universe.

     The brightness rode the black beam it coated back to the portal that emitted it. 

     It hit the portal and shattered it into a hundred thousand pieces. 

     Then the brightness shrank until it was, once again, merely the size of a field, a house, a child, then nothing at all.

     Only the swirling Arctic wind remained.

​END OF NOVEL

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