The sky disappeared. There was no darkness anymore. No stars. No horizon. Nothing except Blood Moons. Hundreds. Then thousands of reflections. But Orion had counted them. Seven hundred and thirteen. Each moon carried a different world. A different ending. A different version of them. Lucian stared upward, unable to speak. On the first moon, he saw himself standing alone. On another, Amara was sitting on a throne of bones. On another, Orion was ruling an empty kingdom. On another, their daughter was covered in blood. And on another— Lucian was holding Amara’s dead body. He closed his eyes. “No.” Amara touched his face. “Don’t look.” “I need to.” “No, Lucian.” She turned his face toward hers. “You don’t have to watch every version of our lives.” Lucian stared into her eyes. “What if one of them tells us how this ends?” Amara smiled sadly. “Then we’ll choose a different ending.” Their foreheads touched. The Blood Moon above them suddenly cracked. CRACK.
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