Luke moved instantly.Not thought.Not strategy.Instinct.He threw himself toward Lily just as reality shattered around her.The eye struck first.Possibility exploded outward—Thousands of contradictory outcomes erupt around her at once.In one reality, Lily burned.In another, she vanished.In another, she never existed at all.At the same time—The figure attacked from the opposite direction.Frozen certainty slammed downward—Attempting to lock Lily into a single immutable state.Permanent.Unchanging.The two forces collided directly around her.And reality screamed.Luke reached her a second before impact—Grabbing her waist and pulling her against him—The structure detonating around them in blinding distortion.Everything vanished.For one impossible moment—Luke existed nowhere.No worlds.No time.No structure.Only fragments.He saw Lily dying a thousand different ways.Saw her frozen forever in crystal stillness.Saw her erased from memory entirely.Saw himself unable to
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