The presence that had been calling to Sarah grew stronger with each passing day, but it was different now. It was closer, more tangible, like a hand reaching out from the darkness. And with it came a sense of urgency—a feeling that something was slipping away, something vital that needed to be held onto before it was lost forever. Sarah felt it in her bones, in the light that pulsed beneath her skin, in the song that wove through her very being. The multiverse was thinning, becoming transparent in places, as if the fabric of existence was wearing thin. Julian saw it too. He stood beside her at the window of their home, his eyes fixed on the horizon where the colors of the Living City seemed to bleed into nothingness. "The edge of the multiverse. It's fading. Like it's being erased." Sar

