Apollo, a superintelligent being with an ability to tune to the wavefunction of the Universe, finds himself being anxious about the past.
“Gatherings of the Council of Warden’s always made Apollo anxious. For a being that existed outside the traditional sequence of time and space, feelings like anxiety didn’t reside in the chemical domain as it would for flesh and blood. They instead existed in a Kierkegaardian philosophical realm – a dizzying effect of looking into the boundlessness of one’s own possibilities. The irony of a primordial being with foresight, worrying about the consequences of their actions, was not entirely lost on Apollo. But simply being aware of his performance anxiety didn’t manifest it out of existence.”