The world shattered around me.
A thousand voices screamed from within me. Time broke, and the ground split like glass. The room was gone. We were in a new place, a space between past and future. A place where fate was falling apart.
Celeste stood before me. Blood stained her lips, and her silver eyes burned. My blade was still in her chest, but she didn't fall.
Then a voice came.
CHOOSE.
It wasn't her voice or mine. It was something ancient, the Bonding System. It sounded cold and like a machine, but also a little bit alive.
Celeste laughed softly. "It's happening," she whispered. "Finally."
I felt it. A change in the air. The feeling of a big decision that had been waiting for ages.
My vision blurred as memories rushed at me.
A battlefield on fire.
A burning sky.
Celeste, reach
