Hannah drifted silently, her massive body swimming through the nothingness surrounding her like a fish through water. Her many eyes scanned the surroundings for any threat or prey, finding none for the moment.

Her radar pinged something. She angled her body sideways, aiming towards the source. It only took a few minutes for her to find her target, a school of planet-sized whales feasting on the light emanated from a star.

She did not hesitate. A twist of her will had her whole body suddenly turn invisible, and she stalked forwards. She was only a few hundred kilometers away from the whales when she abruptly sped up, space itself twisting to allow her to reach her targets in an instant.

The whales reacted immediately, letting out horrifying screeches that caused Hannah's flesh to boil away. More flesh immediately replaced it, however, and then she was upon the first whale.

A million limbs the size of mountains tore into the whale even as it tried to flee, suckers and barbs anchoring Hannah to her fellow abomination. Her mouth opened wide, and with a single bite, she tore out a massive chunk of flesh.

Lasers of all colors and shapes tore into her, the whale's companions not taking her attack on their companion well. She responded by deploying her shields and deflectors around her, and almost immediately, the attacks stopped landing.

Another bite. The whale let out a half-roar, half-screech as oceans of blue blood escaped its body. Hannah weathered the sound attack with ease, and once more, she tore out another chunk even as spines grew out from her serpentine body, piercing into the whale and sucking out its insides.

The battle did not last long after that. The rest of the pod was reluctant to escape, but after Hannah successfully trapped yet another of their numbers, they finally broke and escaped. 

Once alone, Hannah allowed herself to relax, even as her sensory organs within ran overtime, ensuring that no scavengers were lurking around, waiting for an easy kill. A hundred more necks grew out from her body, massive mouths attached at the end. Within minutes, both whales were consumed.

Hannah had already long since absorbed anything of value from the whales. Their DNA, souls, essence, and psychic imprints were of no value to her, only their flesh.

As she waited for said flesh to finish being digested and stored away within separate dimensions for safekeeping, Hannah drifted closer to the real reason she had attacked the pod: The star.

Hannah could, unlike many of the monsters within the Void, still remember a time when she had thought the stars in the skies to be endless.

Nowadays, however, a decently-sized star was the ultimate prize for many of the creatures residing within the Void, and Hannah was no exception. Her body stretched and split, going from vaguely serpent-shaped to looking more like a seastar.

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Her tentacles thinned and stretched, covering as much surface as they could as she worked to envelop the star. Almost instantly, the massive amounts of light being emanated from it began to be absorbed by her, causing her energy stores to skyrocket.

Sure, she could turn matter into energy, and Hannah did so quite often, but matter was a precious thing. Hannah was of the opinion that having a healthy reserve to draw upon in case of injury was key to survival, something that had served her very well during the many millennia of her existence.

Speaking of reserves, after running a few dozen more scans and finding nothing close by, Hannah took the opportunity to draw out the rest of her body from the various dimension it was safely hidden away in.

Almost immediately, her body swelled to well over a thousand times its previous size, going from planet-sized to larger than stars in less than thirty seconds. Her flesh writhed as absorption panels grew out along her skin, the entire star having been now surrounded by her body.

Hannah stayed there for over a month, absorbing as much energy as she could even as tendrils snaked out from her and pierced deep into the stars at times, drinking deeply from it.

During that entire time, Hannah utilized the energy available to her well. Tens of thousands of mountain-sized brain structures birthed themselves into existence within her, running incredibly complex calculations as the abundant energy available allowed them to do so without worry.

DNA samples, souls, strange objects, and many other things kept in storage for years were analyzed in moments, every single possible factor was examined, re-examined, tested, mulled over, and simulated as Hannah let loose.

It was only when the star started going cold that Hannah finally deactivated and re-absorbed the brain structures back into herself, their consumption simply too high to maintain casually. 

Having sucked the star dry of most of its resources, Hannah finally undertook the last step. Her body compressed itself, its expanded bulk crushing the star underneath itself as mouths and suckers ferociously tore into it, absorbing and digesting massive chunks of it in rapid succession.

Within a day, the entire star was no more, and Hannah had grown significantly. This wasn't the first star she'd eaten, but considering how rare they were in this place, it wasn't a surprise that Hannah was so satisfied.

Her body compressed and stretched, resuming its previous serpentine shape even as she shuttled the vast majority of her body back into over a thousand separate dimensions, each one locked behind hundreds of metaphysical walls to prevent attacks from reaching it.

Satisfied, Hannah resumed her journey, her body once more swimming through the void even as space itself shrunk and twisted automatically to allow her to move as efficiently as possible. A new application of the space-control ability she'd fought the whales with, and one that she'd spent quite a lot of energy devising. Considering how much faster she was now able to move and how much energy she could conserve, that alone was worth the investment. The battle applications were just icing on the cake.

It was far from her only evolution or advancement, but Hannah could confidently say that it was her favorite. Despite her faster-than-light speeds when traveling, Hannah still found the distances she had to cross to get anywhere stifling. Now, all of her calculations pointed that her new ability would significantly reduce that.

Except... her calculations could not account for everything. As space once more pinched itself together, allowing her to cross it in an instant, she sensed a spacial anomaly appear. She did not even have time to do anything as the void around her, and in the surrounding dimensions, abruptly shifted.

And so it was that Hannah the Star-Eater escaped the Void... by complete accident.