MasukMia’s POV“Father…”The word barely left my mouth.The figure standing at the end of the golden path smiled.It was him.I knew that face.That voice.That presence.I had spent so long trying to remember him that seeing him again almost hurt more than losing him.My father.The man who had disappeared into the darkness.The man I had believed was gone forever.The man whose death had changed everything.He took another step toward us.“Mia.”My knees almost gave out.Kael caught my arm.“Don’t.”I looked at him.His eyes were fixed on my father.There was something wrong with his expression.He wasn’t seeing the same thing I was.“What?”Kael lowered his blade slightly.“That isn’t your father.”My heart stopped.I looked back.My father smiled.“You’ve grown.”My throat tightened.“You remember me?”“Of course.”His voice was exactly the same.Every word.Every pause.Every little change in his tone.It was him.It had to be.I took a step forward.Kael grabbed my wrist.“Mia.”I pu
Mia’s POVThe roar continued.It wasn’t coming from one place.It was coming from everywhere.The sky shook.The ground beneath my feet trembled.And across the universe, millions of worlds answered.Not with one voice.With thousands.Then millions.A wave of sound traveled through the golden connections between the worlds.I could feel it.Every heartbeat.Every fear.Every hope.Every choice.For the first time, I understood what Lyra had meant.The worlds were communicating.But this wasn’t chaos.They were listening to one another.Kael stood beside me, staring at the sky.“What did you do?”I swallowed.“I don’t know.”Lyra smiled faintly.“You gave them something they never had before.”“Freedom?”“No.”She looked at the golden lines.“Each other.”Another roar shook the universe.This time, darkness moved through the sky.A massive shadow crossed one of the distant worlds.Then another.Then hundreds.The Unmade were spreading.But something was different.The worlds weren’t h
Mia’s POVI couldn’t move.The voice was gone.But its echo remained.Not in the sky.Not in the distance.Inside me.I pressed a hand against my chest.Nothing.No golden light.No Crown.No strange power.Just my heartbeat.Thump.Thump.Thump.“Mia?”Kael stood beside me.I looked at him.“Did you hear that?”His expression changed.“Yes.”My stomach dropped.“What did it say?”He stared toward the horizon.“It said something about choice.”I nodded slowly.“That’s what I heard too.”The world around us was strangely peaceful.Too peaceful.The First World had survived.The sky was intact.The trees moved gently in the wind.For the first time since this nightmare began, there was no enemy standing in front of us.But I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was wrong.Then the ground beneath us trembled.Kael immediately reached for the weapon at his side.I stared at him.“You still have that?”He looked down.A small blade rested against his belt.“I kept it.”“Why?”He gave
Mia’s POVThe universe shook.Not violently.Not like before.This time, it trembled as if existence itself had become uncertain.The First Will stared at me.For the first time since it appeared—it looked surprised.“You cannot choose a third.”I smiled through the fear tightening my chest.“Why not?”“Because there are only two possible outcomes.”“No.”The golden light beneath my skin spread across my arms.“Those are the only outcomes you created.”The First Will stepped toward me.“You do not understand what you are saying.”“I understand perfectly.”I looked at the millions of worlds floating behind it.“You gave me a choice between losing Kael and losing everyone else.”My fingers tightened around his.“But you never asked me to change the rules.”The First Will went silent.Kael stared at me.“Mia…”I turned toward him.“I don’t know if this will work.”His expression softened.“But you’re going to try anyway.”“Yes.”A faint smile appeared on his face.“That sounds like you.
Mia’s POV“Mia.”The voice echoed through the white.I couldn’t move.I couldn’t breathe.I couldn’t even tell if I still had a body.Everything was gone.The worlds.The darkness.The Unmade.My father.Everyone.“Kael?”No answer.My heart tightened.“Kael!”Still nothing.I tried to move toward where I thought he had been, but there was no ground beneath my feet.I was floating.Or falling.I couldn’t tell which.Then something touched my shoulder.I turned.Kael stood behind me.His sword was gone.His clothes were torn.His face was exhausted.But he was alive.I rushed toward him.He caught me before I could fall.“I thought I lost you,” I whispered.“You couldn’t get rid of me that easily.”A weak laugh escaped me.For a moment, I simply held onto him.After everything we had survived, feeling his heartbeat was enough.Then the voice spoke again.“You are not supposed to be here.”Kael looked around.“Who said that?”The white space changed.A figure appeared in front of us.At
Mia’s POVThe darkness fell.Not like night.Like a wall.A wall stretching across the universe, swallowing everything in its path.The first world trembled beneath my feet.Above us, millions of golden eyes opened.Watching.Judging.Waiting.The Unmade had arrived.And somehow—they were worse than anything I had imagined.They had no faces.No bodies.No voices.They were simply shapes carved into the darkness, each one different from the other.Some looked like enormous shadows.Others looked like cracks in reality.Some had wings made of empty space.Some had countless eyes.And some—some were nothing at all.I couldn’t see them.I could only feel them.The First Nothing stepped beside me.Its expression had changed.For the first time since I had known it, it looked afraid.“What are they?” I whispered.It didn’t answer immediately.The First Enemy did.“They are what existed before existence.”I turned toward him.He was staring upward.“They aren’t gods,” he continued.“They
Loren’s POVI stood in the doorway longer than I should have, watching Mia curled beneath the blankets, her breathing slow and even.I was sure she'd have a long first day and a part of me wanted to stay and guide her through, protect her from the ravaging wolves in Aetherion but I thought against
Alpha Bladen's POVBy the time the meeting concluded, the moon was high and full, heavy with silver light that scattered across the courtyard stones.Anderson saw off our guests and dismissed the guards, leaving me alone in the lingering quiet but peace didn’t follow. Not tonight, not with my peopl
Alpha Bladen’s POV“So what happened this time?”My face was stern but also pitiful. I was expecting a good reply from the face her was, i could tell that it was not going to be a good response.“The doctors are not sure but they baby is gone.”Her face was pale, like she just came out of a fight a
Mia Heather’s POVThe heavy scent of exhaust pipes and leather hit my nostrils as i got up from the hatch that was provided for me to sleep in.I rubbed my eyes, getting myself to be fully awake and watching the solid flakes fall off from my eyes.I cried myself to sleep and the migraines i woke up







