Tyler’s heart hammered against his chest as the colossal presence loomed closer. Every fiber of his being screamed for him to run, but the ground beneath his feet was dissolving, the very air around him distorting with a nauseating pull. The creature’s form was shifting with an alien fluidity, its shape constantly warping as if it didn’t belong in this reality at all. Its eyes—if they could be called eyes—glowed with an ancient, malevolent light. They weren’t just looking at him; they were piercing him, dissecting his very soul.
The rift had unleashed something unimaginable, and now it was moving toward him, a force that defied the laws of physics, of nature itself. It was as though the universe had torn itself open to let this being through—and Tyler was standing at the epicenter of the
