Chapter 7: The Weight of Infinite Choice
The quantum field around Sarah intensified, and she felt her consciousness expanding beyond the boundaries of her individual timeline. Through the warehouse windows, she could see Seattle fracturing into multiple overlapping realities—a city where the Space Needle existed in different architectural states simultaneously, where Elliott Bay reflected skylines from various decades, where people walked through streets that belonged to different possible histories.
"The convergence is accelerating," Dr. Cross announced, his hands dancing across controls that seemed to exist in multiple dimensions. "We have perhaps ten minutes before the temporal barriers collapse entirely."
Agent Stone's communication device crackled with reports from federal teams st
