Three days after Colorado, Mira’s marble started whispering.
Not words. Feelings. Dread. A future so bad that Mira woke up screaming every night.
“What do you see?” Julian asked.
“Fire. Everywhere. The warehouse burning. All of us inside.”
“That’s one possibility,” Dara said. “Not a fact.”
“The prediction fragment never showed the same future twice. This one keeps repeating.”
SYSTEM: PREDICTION MARBLE — STABILITY DROPPING. 94%... 87%... 71%...
“It’s breaking,” the Dreamer said. “If it collapses, the future it’s locked onto becomes real.”
“How do we stop it?” Pip asked.
“We need to change something. Make that future impossible.”
The Investigation
Julian gathered everyone. “Think. What could cause a fire here?”
“Gas leak,” Marcus said.
“Bad wiring,” Elena added.
“Arson,” Rina s
