Please help me understand/appreciate the ending of Fall of Hyperion!
I've started the Hyperion Cantos 1.5 months ago and am already halfway through Endymion and I'm loving it, truly some of the most interesting, thought-provoking and simply great Sci-Fi I've ever consumed. One thing always irked me though, the ending of Fall of Hyperion is just a little too out there for me. Specifically the scene where the disembodied Severn/Keats floats in the datumplane (which should have been shut down at that point because Gladstone nuked the farcasters) and just sort of swoops baby Rachel out of the Shrikes hands while in the Sphinx, after which baby Rachel and Moneta appear out of the Sphinx portal. How can Severn/Keats interact with the Shrike after it vanished into the Sphinx? Don't get me wrong, I loved all the other parts of the ending, and the book itself, it's just that one scene that seemed weird (and not the good kind) to me.
Am I simply misremembering/ Did I read it wrong?
Please make it make sense! Thank you!