The scream came from nowhere specific, which meant it came from everywhere at once. Lyra flinched as the law inside her lurched violently, not in pain, but in alarm. She grabbed Liora instinctively.“Something crossed,” Lyra said.Astrael’s head snapped up. “Crossed what?”“The line,” Elyndra answered faintly. “The one the Audit warned about.”The ground didn’t shake. Reality tightened.Miren went pale. “That’s containment geometry.”The boy blinked. “You’re saying that like it’s a thing people should know.“It’s not,” Miren said hoarsely. “It’s a thing people are never supposed to see.”Liora clutched Lyra’s sleeve. “Mom… it’s happening again. An ending is stalling.”Lyra closed her eyes and reached inward. The law answered, hesitant, conditional, waiting. “Show me,” Lyra whispered.The world peeled open. They saw a city frozen mid-collapse. Buildings burned but did not fall. People screamed without dying.A tyrant stood at the heart of it all, impaled through the chest by a blade th
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