LILA’S POV
The world stopped being a place.
It became a decision.
The white collapsed inward like a starving storm.
Not exploding outward anymore no.
Now it was choosing direction.
Toward me.
Toward her.
Toward what it wanted to keep.
My hand was still in Nathan’s.
But it already didn’t feel like mine.
“Lila!” Nathan’s voice broke through the chaos.
“Don’t let it take you hold on to me!”
I tried.
I really tried.
But something stronger than touch was pulling at me now.
Something that didn’t need hands.
Ryker’s voice cut sharply through the collapsing field.
“It’s not physical selection it’s cognitive overwrite! It’s choosing the dominant bridge imprint!”
Ethan shouted back, panic rising.
“Then we stop it shut the origin field down!”
But the field wasn’t listening.
It w
