"That's entropy," S'reee said. Given that wizards had to come to terms with entropy existing, woven into the multiverse at the beginning by One who should have known better. Given a wizard's response to it was to do whatever they could to slow entropy down, someone just deciding to end everything was alien.

The Lone Power was clearly having fun with the Empress.

"I suppose having the memories of other lives has given her the ability to consider timescales that long."