I don't know if quite everything is living. Planets are still big chunks of rock with living things on them, but I suppose that doesn't rule it out. Though I wouldn't expect them to be sapient. I'm not quite sure even Bilious Slick himself was sapient.

All I know for certain is that everything in the universe was a part of his body, or at least a resident within. Any overarching consciousness within the that space would thus be his.

[ It's weird to think about, she was never aware of it while she actually lived within a universe. She just bred him.

She shakes her head. ] No, it isn't. I haven't always been alone, you know. The Porter isn't bound by time, that a world or a person is dead now doesn't mean she couldn't being them anyway.

I suppose, perhaps, she's simply grown bored with most of us.