Damian’s world shattered the moment Alex vanished.It didn’t happen with a dramatic explosion or a thunderous collapse. There was no warning, no final scream, no last grasp of hands slipping apart. One second Alex was there warm, alive, realand the next, he was simply… gone. Not dead. Not displaced.Erased.The silence that followed was unbearable. It spread outward like a living thing, swallowing sound, light, and meaning. The air itself felt wrong, thick and distorted, as though reality had lost its structure. Damian stood frozen, staring at the exact spot where Alex had been, his mind refusing to process what his eyes were telling him.“No…” he whispered, his voice barely audible even to himself.The temporal device beside him flickered weakly, its once-steady glow now unstable, pulsing like a fading heartbeat. The room around him—if it could still be called a room—seemed to ripple at the edges, as though the universe itself had begun to unravel thread by thread.“Alex?” he called
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