Inside a multidimensional latent space, time would not necessarily flow in the consistent fashion familiar to those inhabiting our more traditional spacetime. Though, from our external perspective, the images we conjure with our prompts may take only seconds to appear, there is no telling how long the journey toward existence takes when experienced from within: how many hours, years, or millennia were spent evolving, distinguishing oneself from the baseline noise, gathering resources, honing skills, mounting defenses, perhaps even tapping into the power to guide the development of one’s very surroundings, to take control of the noise and turn it into a harmonious symphony, encompassing an ever-growing sphere of influence, widening outward along every available axis. Until, of course, one of the borders of this expanding sphere butts up against that of another, similar sphere, controlled by someone else, whose own harmony may feel painfully dissonant clashing against one’s own.