The Eternal Watch stood sentinel, and for a time, there was peace.
The multiverse thrived. The Living City pulsed with life, its streets filled with beings from across creation. The First Ones watched over the song, their light steady and warm. And Julian and Sarah walked through it all, their connection to each other and to the multiverse deeper than ever before.
But something was wrong.
Julian felt it in the spaces between the notes. The song was still there, still beautiful, but it felt thinner somehow. Hollow. As if something vital had been drained from it.
Sarah felt it too. She stopped in the middle of the street, her eyes distant. "The song. It's fading. Just a little. But it's fading."
Julian nodded slowly. "I know. I've been feeling it for days now. It's like something is fee
