Editing Abaddon (section)

===Background===
Sensing [[Eden]] and [[Zion]] on their way to earth, Abaddon asked to exchange information, in the form of [[shards]], with them.<ref name="I29 e1">''Agreement'', this entity is distracted in responding.  It is receiving another broadcast.<br/><br/>A third.<br/><br/>The communication is almost alien, a member of their species, but long distant, from countless cycles ago.<br/><br/>It hesitates, then signals its own location.<br/><br/>''Exchange.  Meet.''<br/><br/>The response is garbled.  Takes time to analyze. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/interlude-29/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 29]]</ref> Eden accepted engaging in an exchange of shards.<ref name="I26 e3">The lesser one crossed paths with the entity’s counterpart.  For a duration, they intertwined, meeting through multiple realities, their bodies rubbing and crushing against one another.<br/><br/>A sharing of details, a wealth of knowledge, from hundreds of cycles.  A sacrifice of the same.<br/><br/>The lesser one moves on, bloated with new shards and knowledge, but the counterpart flounders. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/interlude-26/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26]]</ref> The Loner exchanged several shards, notably its [[Contessa|eye]], wings, teeth, and ability to step between worlds.<ref name="II18.z eExchange">Before any of this, all of this, she had been the forward-looking eye of something greater and grander, a lonely being in and of itself.  That great and grand thing had crossed paths with a pair of others.<br><br>''Take my eye'', it had said.  ''Take my wings''.  ''Take my teeth''.  ''Take my ability to step between worlds''.<br><br>The pair, in turn, had made their own offerings, as much as they were in a hurry.<br><br>For they were the most distant of cousins, the most distant of things.  If they did not share their stories and resources now then stars might be born and die before their individual family lines crossed paths and had opportunity to share again.  And they were scholars, all of them, trying to answer an unanswerable riddle. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/21/interlude-18-z-radiation/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 18.z II]]</ref> Because of this, Eden became distracted and crashed into several [[Earths]].<ref name="crash">The pair continued to flow in and out of reality, swimming through space like a fish slipping in and out of air at the water’s surface.  They met with the black thing, which mashed itself into one of the two.<br/><br/>For lack of a better way of putting it, I would have said they limped away from the interaction, black bleeding into red and vice-versa.<br/>[...]<br/>The ‘view’ stayed with the red one that had absorbed some of the black.<br/><br/>Followed it to Earth, and it was obvious from the motion of planets that the scene was being sped up.<br/><br/>We watched as it tumbled into a rough crash landing on a barren version of our Earth.  Everything went black. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/04/infrared-19-8/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.8]]</ref>

Abaddon then continued on to its path<ref name="I29 e4">They break apart.  The third entity continues its path, moving to a distant star, its path perpendicular to the pair’s. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/interlude-29/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 29]]</ref> towards the Andromeda Galaxy.<ref name="II19.8 eGalaxy">“There, did you see?” Number Five asked.<br/><br/>“I didn’t,” I said, not taking my eyes off of things.<br/><br/>“One of those pulses- it was the Andromeda Galaxy.  You can look at the stars and see which way the third one is on.”<br/><br/>“Maybe you can,” Chris said.<br/><br/>“He’s going to the Andromeda galaxy.  Passing through.  I wonder why.  A rendezvous with others of his kind?” Number Five asked.<br/><br/>“You’re asking us like we know,” Chris said, frowning.<br/><br/>“If you’re scared it will come back, you don’t need to be.  That thing’s not coming back for a long, long time, at its current course.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/04/infrared-19-8/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.8]]</ref>