Respite of a Distant Dream

((Pre-Story Note: Heavily inspired by those comics/fanfics where Gregory/Evan meet, but it's in my AU! I'll make chapters explaining my AU later!!))

More emotions once lingering in the back of his mind blared in Gregory's face like a foghorn.

Hysteria. Desperation.

A primal, bone-deep fear that drove him from the core within- as though even his atman from within were afraid and visceral and driven to panic before red met white and yellow- before machinery met skin.

Before the world-ending pain and the screams of horror and despair below him vaporized the oceans, quelling the thunder, stopping the flow of time itself as it tore heaven and earth asunder to nothing more than smithereens.