The moment both worlds reacted to my step, I realized I had just created something that should not exist.
The space around me did not remain still after I moved, and it did not hold its quiet clarity, because the instant I stepped between both realities, something tore through the balance that had separated them. It was neither violent nor chaotic, but it was wrong in a way I could feel immediately.
I was no longer fully outside. And I was no longer fully gone. “You are not meant to stand between states,” the presence said.
“I know,” I replied. But I did not move. Because the moment I stepped, something changed.
The network surged again, stronger this time, and the scattered structures that had been breaking apart began to pull inward, not toward me, but towards him.
Kael. He was no l
