Screams from the Abyss

Temporal Tides

The world around them was a maelstrom of temporal chaos. Buildings flickered between past, present, and future states, their architecture morphing in dizzying cycles. People phased in and out of existence, sometimes appearing as children, adults, and elders all at once. The very ground beneath their feet rippled like water, landscapes from different eras bleeding into one another.

Aria's mind raced, trying to process the overwhelming sensory input while maintaining her focus. "Lyra," she called out, her voice barely audible over the cacophony of colliding timestreams, "can you establish a harmonic anchor point? We need a stable reference to work from."

The celestial being nodded, her form shimmering as she tapped into the cosmic forces swirling around them. Her voice rose in a complex melody, weaving together threads of past, present, and future into a stabilizing chord. Slowly, a bubble of relative calm formed around the team, the chaos of the fractured reality held at bay by the pow