Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Space Between Us
The Veil did not welcome them.
It felt them.
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Crossing Over
The moment they stepped through the fracture, everything changed.
Sound slowed.
Light bent.
Time… fractured.
Jason felt it first, like drowning without water.
Maxwell staggered, disoriented as every logical structure in his mind collapsed.
Lucien laughed once under his breath.
“Ah,” he murmured. “This is deeply unpleasant.”
Bosco held Cicilia’s hand tightly.
Neither of them spoke.
Because ahead of them, she stood.
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Cassandra
She was exactly as they remembered.
And completely different.
Light moved beneath her skin.
Darkness traced her edges.
Her eyes held galaxies, but when she looked at them, they trembled.
“...You came.”
Jason moved first.
Always.
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