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Chapter 45: In Between Worlds
The world returned in fragments.A rush of cold air came.A blinding flash.Then nothingNo ground, no sky, no gravity.Alex hit something soft but unsteady, like landing on a cloud that wasn't sure if it wanted to exist. As he tried to orient himself, his vision blurred.“Alex!”Mia's voice cut through the haze.He blinked hard. Shapes began to form figures drifting downward in slow motion, suspended in a shimmering white void.He wasn’t falling. He was floating.Callum spun past him, arms flailing. “Why does it feel like I’m made of jelly?!”Liam floated upside down. “Bro we’re in nothing. Literal nothing!”Amara appeared last, steadying herself with a pulse of thread light which rippled across the void like rings on water.Her gaze darted quickly from face to face. “Is everyone okay?”“I think so,” Mia said, pulling herself upright—though “upright” was debatable when no up or down existed."What… is this place?" Liam asked, spinning helplessly back into normal orientation.Slowly,
Chapter 44: The Temple of Echoes
The journey to the convergence point took two days two long, disorienting days where reality twisted in ways to make even the strongest of them uneasy. Vegetation shifted color at random, shadows flickered in directions that made no sense, and the air hummed with a pressure that felt like something massive breathing just out of sight.Alex kept himself together, but barely. Every few miles, the dual rhythms inside him clashed and sent a tremor up his spine. Amara never left his side.By the time they reached the northeastern ridge, the sky had darkened to an unnatural twilight. The sun was still up but it shone dimly, as if seen through layers of glass and memory.Below them, nestled in a valley of warped stone, stood the convergence point.A great temple sprawled across the land, half ruined, half flourishing, its architecture unlike anything from their world: spiralling pillars, floating platforms and runes that rearranged themselves with every blink. The entire structure pulsed sof
Chapter 43: Fractures of the Self
Amara woke to silence.Not the still quiet of peace but that dense, heavy silence that falls after a scream. The spire's light was dim now, pulsing weakly like a dying heartbeat. Threads hung in the air slack, trembling, uncertain.She sat up slowly. Her body felt foreign, as though part of her had been left behind within the Heart Node. When she raised her hand, faint lines of golden energy traced her veins. They pulsed once then faded beneath her skin.Across from her, Alex stood near the edge of the platform, staring into the horizon. His back was to her, his shoulders tense.“You’ve been awake longer than me,” she said softly.He didn’t turn immediately. “Couldn’t sleep.”Amara rose, walking toward him. “You saw something, didn’t you?”He hesitated and then nodded. “It's as if he's still here, within me. When I close my eyes, I see fragments his memories, not mine. Worlds I've never been to. Things I'd never do.”"The Manipulator," she whispered.Alex let out a long, slow breath.
Chapter 42: The Horizon Rewritten
The first dawn in the new world did not rise.It unfolded.Light seeped from every corner of the sky: gold, lavender, and silver, merging in ripples that seemed to breathe. The air shimmered with warmth that felt alive, and when Alex stepped forward, the ground beneath his feet shifted subtly, like it was listening to him.He turned, half expecting the old wasteland, the broken spires of the Threads cape but everything was different.Before them, the land stretched to infinity, tufted with pale grass that shone with a faint light at the tip of every blade, as if kissed by starlight. A river ran alongside, its current upward for a moment before its gentle curve back to Earth. Every shape, every sound felt dreamlike as though they stood in some reality still deciding what to be.“Okay,” said Mia, running her hand through her tangled hair. “Either I’m hallucinating, or gravity’s having an identity crisis.”Callum's scanner blinked wildly, soft beeps meaning nothing and everything. "It's
Chapter 41: The Whisper Beneath the Threads
The wind was soft when Alex opened his eyes again.No thunder, no pulsing light, no collapsing horizons. Only the murmur of rustling grass and a sun that seemed, for once, content to stay still.He lay on his back, looking up at a sky so blue it almost hurt. The gold threads that had stitched through the clouds some time earlier were dissolving now, leaving a fragile normalcy in their wake.For the first time in what seemed to be forever, the world was quiet.He turned his head. Amara was still beside him, her hand lying loosely in his, her hair fanned out across the grass. Her breathing was slow, peaceful but her skin still shimmered faintly, like the threads hadn’t quite let go of her."Hey," he whispered.Her eyes fluttered open. For a moment she just looked at him, almost as if she was trying to remember whether he was real or not. Then she smiled faintly.“We made it.”Alex laughed out a breath, relief tangled with incredulity. “Yeah. For now.”She sat up slowly, scanning the fie
Chapter 40: The Shattered Realms
Light.That was the first thing Amara became aware of: a light too bright to belong to any world she'd known. It wasn't warm or cold, but endless, stretching in every direction, pulsing with the rhythm of something alive.Then came the silence.It was deafening, the kind that swallowed even thoughts.Amara tried to move, but the world shifted around her like liquid glass. Shapes bled into one another; fragments of cities, skies, and forests flickered in and out of existence. Each fragment shimmered with faint echoes of the team's voices, distorted like memories trying to find their way back to her.“Amara?”“Stop don’t move!“Where the hell are we"The voices fractured, scattered like static.She forced herself upright, clutching her chest as the threads flared beneath her skin. They were out of sync each pulse misaligned, chaotic. The Manipulator's words echoed in her mind:Every tear you mend feeds me.Her throat went dry. The nexus blast had done more than separate them it had spli
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