There was a time Mafdel worried what would happen to Chaos if I was no longer host, if I died or was removed somehow from control of her persona. The fear was that Chaos, unfettered by more human emotion and compassion, might do what she had been intended to do all along, what Doom seemed intent on-wipe everything clean and let Creation start again.

I fought to reconnect with her though I knew it was a losing battle, reaching for her with the empathic field, clawing ...