Coda

The inverse - performing complex inversion equations for his love's delight, such bliss! - of dimensionless existence meant eternities happened between what were once heartbeats.

Lexiacseid lived forever.

It would have driven anyone mad, but what had been Brainiac gave Lexiacseid a piercing sanity far more devastating than mere lunacy.

Joy. Rapture.

... Disturbance.

"Got it," came a voice. Lexiacseid fractured like a diamond.

Cold, naked, screaming, Lex fell to the laboratory floor.

"What's ... who's that?" asked another voice.

Too much knowledge, too tight a shell, no control ...

His head exploded.