Shadow and Light
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The fabric of reality shuddered as the Seers materialized at the edge of a dying universe. Before them stretched a cosmic graveyard, stars guttering like spent candles, galaxies unraveling into gossamer threads of spent matter and energy. And through it all moved the shadowy entities they had glimpsed in the Concordance, their very presence seeming to accelerate the decay of everything around them.

Aria felt the Blade of Dawn pulse in her hand, its light a defiant beacon against the encroaching darkness. "Remember what we learned," she said, her voice steady despite the horror of the scene before them. "We're not here to destroy these entities, but to understand them, to find a way to restore balance."

Zephyr nodded, his form flickering as he attuned himself to the ebb and flow of the weakening dimensional barriers. "It's like trying to patch a dam while the flood is already starting. We need to work fast."

Lyra's voice rose in a complex harmony, weaving together strands of fading rea
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