Tyler’s mind reeled as Amara’s figure flickered in and out of sight. Her voice, once filled with love and hope, now echoed with an eerie distortion that chilled him to his core. Her eyes, glowing with the unnatural light of the rift, locked onto him, but they seemed so far away, as though she were slipping into a different reality—one that he couldn’t follow.
“Amara!” he shouted, his voice hoarse. “Come back! You’re still in there. I know you are!”
But the woman before him, her silhouette bathed in the eerie light of the rift, was a stranger. Her hand reached toward him with an unsettling calmness. The shadows swirling around her intensified, darkening the air with each movement she made.
Tyler’s heart pounded, each beat like a drum urging him to act, to do something before it was too l
