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Chapter 188
No one spoke.Not even the wind.The thing that had fallen from the sky didn’t burn. It didn’t crash like debris. It simply arrived—embedded in the glassy earth, as if the world itself had cracked open to make room.Pamela was the first to step forward, slow, cautious. Her boots crunched against crystallized dust and bone. The crater was deeper than it looked, and in the center, surrounded by steaming air, lay a figure.A body.No. Not a body.A presence.Kael stood at the edge, breath caught in his throat. “That’s me.”“No,” Selene whispered, clutching his arm. “It just looks like you.”Kael shook his head. He couldn’t take his eyes off it. It was him—but not. Taller, broader, carved like myth. Skin pale, almost translucent. Its veins shimmered gold beneath the surface. Its face was still. Eyes shut. Peaceful. Terrifying.Even unconscious, it radiated pressure.Time stuttered around it.Riva stepped out of the shadows behind them, her voice hushed with awe. “You’re looking at the ver
Chapter 187
Selene sat across from Kael, a distance that felt impossibly wide—even though only a few feet separated them.He stared at her like she was a stranger.Her eyes—once his anchor—now confused him. Familiar, but wrong. Like looking at a dream he couldn’t quite remember.“You were important to me,” Kael said slowly, the words tasting like broken glass in his mouth. “Everyone keeps saying it.”Selene nodded, her voice a whisper. “You said you’d burn the world for me.”Kael looked down at his hands. “That doesn’t sound like me.”Pamela stood nearby, arms crossed tight across her chest. She hated this. Hated watching Selene unravel in slow motion. She had seen Selene face down gods, memory beasts, voidwalkers—and win. But this?This was breaking her.“Kael, listen to me,” Pamela said, trying to keep her voice steady. “You and Selene… you’ve died for each other. More than once. You chose her when everything else said you shouldn’t.”“Right,” Kael muttered, rubbing his temples. “Except now, I
Chapter 186
The Warden’s shattered body dissolved into nothingness.Kael stood at the center of the broken garden, breathing like the world was collapsing in his chest. His hand still trembled from the final strike.Selene, real and whole, gasped in his arms.But something was wrong.Kael blinked.Once.Twice.Then stared at her.“Do I… know you?” he whispered.Selene’s face went pale. Her lips parted, words failing her.Pamela, standing nearby, turned sharply.“What did you say?”Kael touched his head. His brow furrowed. “Her name… it’s right there. On the tip of my mind.”Marcus stepped forward, limping slightly from the remnants of the memory bridge he had just held open. “Kael—what’s happening to you?”Elias was silent.Watching.Too still.Then—he moved. Slowly. Like he had all the time in the universe.“You shouldn’t have brought her back,” he said quietly.Everyone turned to him.Kael narrowed his eyes. “What?”“You broke the balance,” Elias continued. “You bent a living memory to overwrit
Chapter 185
The first thing Selene heard was the sound of wind.Not the wind of any world she’d ever known—this wind carried memories.Laughter. Screams. Regrets. Kisses never given. Promises never kept.She opened her eyes and gasped.Before her stretched a garden. Endless. Silent. Alive.But it wasn’t filled with flowers. No trees. No grass.Instead, it was lined with mirrors. Thousands of them. Tall and still.Each one reflecting not her—but a different version of her.One was older, hair streaked with silver, wrapped in battle-scarred armor.Another sat in a pristine white dress beneath a dying tree, her smile too wide, her eyes dead.One crouched in shadows, blood coating her hands.One wept endlessly.One held a child.Selene stumbled backward.A voice rippled through the garden—not loud, not deep. It was precise.Cold.“Timeline tethered. Identity fractured. Reconstruction in process.”The Warden.She couldn’t see it—but she felt it in the soil, in the way the mirrors pulsed like veins.It
Chapter 184
The glitch was so small at first, Kael almost missed it.Selene walked three paces ahead of him—calm, quiet, a little too quiet. Her footsteps echoed in perfect rhythm across the crystalline floor of the new world. But her shadow… her shadow dragged half a second behind.Kael’s breath caught in his throat.“Selene,” he said carefully. “Stop.”She did. Slowly. Her arms hung at her sides, still as stone.“Turn around,” he whispered.She turned. Her face was hers. But… wrong.There were three layers of her in front of him. One blinking a fraction too late. One twitching like a paused memory. The third perfectly still, like a memory frozen in glass.“Kael?” she asked.All three of her voices echoed at once.Pamela gasped. “Did you hear that?”“I heard everything,” Kael said, stepping forward.Riva moved faster. Her boots slammed against the stone, hand going to her blade. “Get back from her.”“No,” Kael barked, one arm out. “Nobody touches her.”“She’s fracturing,” Riva snapped. “You want
Chapter 183
The Warden descended like a nightmare unfolding in reverse.It didn’t move through space—it bent it. With each step, the world behind it peeled apart and stitched itself again, like reality was afraid to offend it. Clouds stilled. Wind stopped. Even light seemed to avoid its path.And then it spoke—with Kael’s voice.But it wasn’t his voice now. It was the voice he had once used when he had no soul left to protect. Cold. Authoritative. Void of all human weight.“Kael Vale. You have violated narrative integrity.”Kael’s fists clenched. “I didn’t ask to be made.”The Warden’s face flickered—his own face, but hollow. Distorted. A mask of a god who forgot how to bleed.“Your regret is noted.”The Warden raised its hand—and the air shattered.Kael barely dodged the strike as a spike of silver light tore through the rock behind him, vaporizing a crater into the mountainside.Selene screamed, “Kael!”Pamela pulled her gun and fired—but the bullets passed through the Warden like paper through
Chapter 182
The second figure stepped out from the burning ship like a shadow with weight.It had no face.No features.Just a tall, bone-thin frame wrapped in mirrored armor, its surface shifting like water trying to remember how to be steel. It didn’t speak. It didn’t move.Kael stood slowly. “Riva… is that—?”She was already backing away, hands trembling, voice flat. “It found me.”Pamela raised her weapon. “What the hell is that thing?”Riva didn’t blink. “The Warden.”The wind shifted. The stars above flickered unnaturally. Selene could feel it too—like the entire world was inhaling, waiting.Marcus grunted. “It doesn’t look alive.”“It’s not,” Riva whispered. “It’s a protocol. A failsafe created by the cradle of realities. It hunts corrupted stories… like me. Like him.” She pointed at Kael, who hadn’t moved.Kael’s voice was tight. “Corrupted how?”Riva turned to him. “When a story breaks its loop—when a version of you remembers what it shouldn’t, becomes more than it was scripted to be—the
Chapter 181
The sky split open.Kael didn’t speak. He just stared up at the burning trail of fire carving through the quiet stars. It wasn’t a comet. Not in this world. It wasn’t natural. Nothing here had been since they crossed into this place—their so-called “new beginning.”“That’s not debris,” Marcus said under his breath. “That’s a ship.”Pamela narrowed her eyes. “Then why does it feel like it’s falling on us?”The crash shook the ground minutes later. The light vanished beyond the eastern ridge, just over the valley of red ash. A long silence followed, broken only by the low wind curling through the strange new forest. Everything felt… wrong.Kael adjusted the collar of his coat. “We follow it.”Selene didn’t hesitate. She was already moving. “Something came for us.”⸻They reached the crater before dawn. The rim was jagged—shattered glass and what looked like bone scattered across the slope. Whatever landed hadn’t simply crashed—it had torn through the fabric of this world.Marcus crouche
Chapter 180
Silence.True silence.Not the kind filtered through machinery, not the absence of war sounds or collapsing timelines—but the kind of quiet that could only exist at the beginning of something untouched. Primal. Absolute.Kael opened his eyes.He was lying on his back, on something soft and strange. It wasn’t soil. It wasn’t stone. It was…light. A field of pale gold light, rippling like water but solid under his weight. Above him, a sky stretched vast and endless—unscarred by war, unsinged by battle, unmarred by the brutal echoes of ancient beings.He sat up.His chest didn’t feel heavy.No tether. No Architect’s grip. No cradle coils wrapped around his thoughts. For the first time in what felt like a thousand lifetimes, Kael could breathe—really breathe. He inhaled, and the air tasted like starsong. Like something blooming at the edge of time.He wasn’t alone.Footsteps approached softly, and when he turned, his breath caught in his throat.Selene.Whole. Solid. Real.No glitching. No
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