章 1728: Starting Conditions.

What's odd is that their minds appear to be in separate spaces. They expected to be in the same world, but all nine of them can't sense each other in this dark, empty world. 

Legion-1 said, "This can't be all this project is about, is it? I would be disappointed if it were so." 

No sooner had he said that than the world changed. The darkness was driven away by light. The world became completely white. There was no source of light, but the world was white as far as he could sense. 

But the light and its source were the least of their concerns. They could sense that the law matrix had begun to activate. It was firing off instructions, and the laws within it were interacting to create manifestations. 

Legion-1 couldn't help but say, "How uncanny! It looks like the neuron firing of a brain. Are we inside a brain?"