Christian felt the portal tear them apart.
One moment, he had Daisy's hand clasped firmly in his, anchoring her to him as they plunged through the void. The next, her warmth vanished, ripped away as if by claws tearing through the fabric of existence itself. He roared in fury, frost exploding from his core in deadly crystalline patterns, but the darkness simply absorbed it, unmoved by his rage.
"Daisy!" His voice echoed strangely, returning to him distorted and wrong. "Cassius!"
No response came except the hungry silence of the spaces between spaces. Christian pushed forward, following the lingering trail of silver light from the Moon's Tear, but it grew fainter with each passing second, dissolving like mist before dawn. Then suddenly, the void spat him out unceremoniously onto cold, ha
