The sky broke.Not cracked.Not shattered.It simply ceased to behave like a sky.Above the sanctuary, beyond the ruined ceiling, reality folded back like a curtain.Stars vanished.Clouds disappeared.The heavens themselves seemed to peel away.And behind them—An eye opened.The entire world froze.Every guardian.Every Sovereign.Every living soul beneath that impossible gaze.The eye was so vast that it eclipsed the horizon.Yet somehow it didn't belong to any physical creature.It wasn't looking at the world.It was looking through it.As though reality itself were a window.Lyra couldn't comprehend what she was seeing.Her mind struggled to process the scale.The shape.The existence of it.The moment she tried focusing on details, they slipped away.Like a dream forgotten upon waking.The Heart staggered backward.Its silver light flickering wildly."No..."The child whispered.The End's shadow stretched across the floor.For the first time since arriving, it sounded genuinely
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