The "Happy Ever After" lasted exactly three minutes.The golden light of the eclipse had faded, leaving a crisp, silent night atop the High Peaks. Kieran was still holding me, his heart beating a steady rhythm against my ear, and Rowan was standing close enough for our shoulders to brush. For a heartbeat, it felt like the credits were rolling.Then, the world hiccupped.It wasn't a tremor of the earth. it was a tremor of reality. The obsidian pillar of the Anchor, which I had just "grounded," didn't shatter. Instead, the white light I’d poured into it began to bleed away, turning from a pure, brilliant gold to a jagged, static violet."Iris?" Kieran’s voice was sharp. He pulled back, his eyes searching mine. "What did you do?""I fixed it," I whispered, though my stomach was already dropping into my shoes. "I broke the script. I gave us a choice.""Look at the sky," Mattias barked, pointing upward.The stars weren't stars. They were flickering back into text, but the letters were garb
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