ログインAria's POV Luna's seven aspects materialized in the council chamber simultaneously, but this time they arranged themselves in a circle rather than merging. Each one radiated distinct energy—Child, Scholar, Feral, Queen, Time-Loop, Void-Touched, and Divine—yet they moved in perfect synchronization."We've been thinking separately but concluding together," Scholar-Luna began, her crystalline form refracting light into equations."Adults always complicate things," Child-Luna added, swinging her legs from her chair. "You see entropy as enemy because it ends things. But endings aren't evil—they're just part of the pattern.""Consider nature," Feral-Luna growled softly. "Predator and prey. Growth and decay. Neither is wrong—both are necessary."I leaned forward, the chain showing me where their logic led. "You're suggesting we stop fighting entropy entirely?""We're suggesting you stop seeing it as separate," Queen-Luna stated with royal authority. "In trying to preserve everything forever
Aria's POV David arrived in flames that didn't burn—phoenix fire that transformed rather than destroyed. His human form was now just a suggestion, a memory of shape within an inferno of rebirth."I've been thinking," he said, his voice carrying the crackle of stars being born. "About cycles. About endings that become beginnings."We'd gathered in the transformed garden, all seven of my alternates present, both mates, Marina, Sarah flickering through timelines, and now David in his transcendent form."Let me guess," Dead-Timeline-Aria said dryly. "You have a solution that involves burning everything down.""Not burning. Renewing." David's flames pulsed with conviction. "The phoenix doesn't just survive death—it controls it. Chooses when to end and begin. What if we did the same with the universe?""Explain," I said, though the chain was already showing me possibilities I didn't like."We trigger universal rebirth intentionally. Before the Devourer can escape. Before entropy wins." His
Aria's POV Marcus returned within the hour, but this time he came to talk. He sat across from me in the garden—the same garden where we'd shared tea lifetimes ago, when we both still pretended to be simply human."You want to understand," he said, not a question."I want to know why someone chooses to become entropy's avatar. You had to choose, didn't you? Entropy couldn't force consciousness."He smiled, genuinely this time. "You're right. It was a choice. The most deliberate choice I ever made.""Tell me."Marcus gazed at flowers that would inevitably wilt, trees that would eventually fall. "I was a physicist before—in my first life. I studied thermodynamics, watched energy spread and dissipate, measured the slow death of stars. Do you know what I learned?""That everything ends?""That everything suffers before it ends." His form flickered, showing glimpses of the entropy beneath. "I calculated it once—the total amount of suffering that would exist between now and heat death. Ever
Aria's POV Sarah materialized again, but this time she brought the web with her—visible threads of causality spreading across the training ground like a spider's creation made of light and possibility."Look," she said, her voice resonating from multiple temporal positions. "Every decision, every choice, creates a branch."The threads split and multiplied before our eyes, each one representing a different timeline. But then I noticed something disturbing—many of the threads ended abruptly, cut short or withering into nothing."Dead timelines," I whispered, recognizing them through the chain's sight."Failed timelines," Sarah corrected. "Futures where we lost. Where the Devourer won. Where reality collapsed. I've been—" She paused, shame coloring her features. "I've been pruning them. Cutting off branches before they can become real."Marina stepped forward, her expression sharp. "You've been playing god with causality?""I've been gardening," Sarah defended. "Ensuring at least one ti
Aria's POV Sarah stood at the center of the convergence circle, her form flickering between states like a television changing channels. One moment solid, the next transparent, occasionally splitting into multiple versions before snapping back together."It's accelerating," she said, her voice carrying harmonics from different realms. "The bridge power—it's not just growing. It's evolving into something else."I watched through the chain's infinite sight, seeing possibilities cascade around her. In half of them, she transcended. In half, she fragmented beyond recovery."Talk to us," Dimitri urged, his earthwise senses tracking her shifting energy. "What are you feeling?""Everything. Everywhere." Sarah laughed, the sound echoing from places that didn't exist. "I'm standing here, but I'm also in the Void, the divine realm, the shadow lands, the echo dimensions, the spaces between thoughts.""You're dispersing," Marina warned. "Spreading yourself too thin across realities.""No." Sarah'
Aria's POV "The debt was never about time," I said, understanding flooding through me as I examined infinite possibilities. "Time was just the currency. The real debt is existential."Marina's eyes widened. "You know what he wants?""I know what he needs to know." I stood, the chain of reality showing me a truth buried so deep that even gods had forgotten it. "His mate—Selene. Everyone believes she died in the first war between existence and void.""She did die," Marina insisted. "The Void King's grief created the first black hole.""She chose to become something else." I looked up at the sky, where the moon hung full and bright. "She didn't die. She transformed herself into the moon itself to escape."Silence fell across all timelines simultaneously."That's impossible," Kieran said, but doubt colored his voice."Feel her," I urged, extending my perception through the chain. "Not with normal senses. Feel the consciousness woven into moonlight. The awareness in tidal pulls. She's bee







