Fractured Reality
Ridge staggered, molten Heartfire and frost coiling around him, screaming in agony yet refusing to yield. Every thread of the lattice, every bond he had anchored, strained violently under the assault of the colossal entity. Mountains quaked, rivers boiled, forests burned, and the very air vibrated with the impossible energy of a force older than existence itself.
Aria’s voice tore through his mind, urgent, desperate, commanding: “Ridge! You must hold every thread! Anchor the lattice or all is lost! The Core Threads are responding—use them!”
Ridge’s chest heaved, veins blazing, molten energy and frost coiling violently as he extended the lattice outward. Threads of Heartfire intertwined with the Core Threads beyond existence, binding mountains, rivers, forests, ley line
