(Mirabel's POV)
The city screamed.
Not with sound.
With existence.
Every street twisted.
Every tower shuddered.
Every light flickered wildly.
The entire city recoiled from the darkness beyond the door.
As though it recognized what was coming.
As though it remembered.
The third footstep echoed.
And the doorway cracked.
Thin fractures spread across the frame.
Not through wood.
Through reality.
The darkness behind Yesterday shifted.
Something moved.
Something enormous.
Something that should not have fit inside a place at all.
Yet somehow—
It did.
Because size wasn't the problem.
Meaning was.
The thing approaching carried too much of it.
The Devourer stepped forward.
Ancient power rolled from him like thunder.
The air trembled.
Stars flickered.
Entire buildings paus
