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“Because if you choose him… you will never become me.”Sophia stared at her future self.The words refused to make sense.“If I choose Lucien, I won’t become you?”The Final Sophia nodded.“Yes.”“Then why should I care about becoming you?”The older woman smiled sadly.“Because you will eventually understand what I had to sacrifice.”Sophia glanced at Lucien.He was watching her with fear in his eyes.“What did you sacrifice?”The Final Sophia didn’t answer immediately.Instead, she looked at the children.At Cain.At Adrian.At the millions of souls scattered across the collapsing realities.Then she whispered:“Everything.”Sophia’s heart tightened.“Everyone?”The Final Sophia nodded.“Everyone.”Lucien stepped forward.“Then why are you here?”The Final Sophia looked at him.“To stop her from making my mistake.”Lucien frowned.“What mistake?”She looked at Sophia.“Loving someone more than you love your own existence.”Sophia’s expression hardened.“I don’t consider loving Lucie

“They’re dead.”Sophia stared at Cain.For several seconds, she couldn’t breathe.“What did you say?”Cain’s hands were trembling.“The children…”Sophia grabbed his shoulders.“What happened?”“The sky opened.”“Where?”“Everywhere.”“Who attacked them?”Cain shook his head.“I don’t know.”Sophia’s eyes became colder.“Who?”“I couldn’t see.”“Cain!”He looked directly into her eyes.“It was you.”Sophia froze.“What?”Cain began crying.“You appeared above us.”“I…”“You were wearing the crown.”Sophia’s blood ran cold.“The crown was destroyed.”Cain shook his head.“No.”He pointed behind her.“You brought it back.”Sophia turned.The eyeless woman was standing beside the burning house.Above her head floated the broken crown.Sophia stared.“That’s impossible.”The woman smiled.“Not in here.”Sophia understood.“This isn’t real.”The woman nodded.“Now you’re beginning to understand.”The IllusionSophia looked around.The burning house.Cain’s blood.The dead children.The col

“Because the moment you do… you become the Author.”Sophia stared at the pen.It looked ordinary.A black feather.A silver tip.Nothing about it suggested that it could control universes.Yet every time she looked at it, she felt something terrifying.Recognition.As though she had held it before.As though some forgotten part of her remembered writing with it.The Author stood across from her.“You don’t understand what you’re holding.”Sophia tightened her fingers around the pen.“Then explain.”The Author laughed.“You’ve spent your entire existence fighting against people who wanted to control you.”“Yes.”“Kings.”“Yes.”“Gods.”“Yes.”“Creators.”“Yes.”“Destiny.”Sophia’s eyes narrowed.“And now you.”The Author smiled.“Especially me.”Lucien stepped between them.“Don’t listen to him.”The Author looked at Lucien.“You still think you can protect her?”Lucien’s jaw tightened.“I’ll always try.”“That’s your problem.”The Author raised one finger.Lucien suddenly dropped to h

“Now you’re finally ready to meet your mother.”Sophia couldn’t move.The woman standing beyond the door had her face.Not similar.Not resembling.Exactly the same.The same eyes.The same lips.The same delicate scar beneath her left eyebrow.Even the tiny birthmark near her wrist was there.Sophia stared at her as though reality itself had betrayed her.“No…”Lucien stepped in front of her.“Stay behind me.”The woman smiled.“Still protecting her?”Lucien’s expression hardened.“Who are you?”The woman ignored him.Her eyes remained fixed on Sophia.“My daughter.”Sophia’s breath caught.Nobody had called her that in years.Not since she was a child.Not since her mother had supposedly died.Sophia whispered:“You’re dead.”The woman smiled sadly.“I was.”Sophia took a step backward.“Then how are you standing here?”“Because death is only permanent in stories written by people who don’t understand it.”Sophia stared at her.“What’s your name?”The woman’s expression softened.“Y

“I am the first choice.”Sophia could no longer hear anything.The room had become impossibly quiet.Lucien stood before her, surrounded by golden flames that moved like living creatures. Every spark in existence seemed to recognize him.The stars outside the window had stopped moving.The wind had stopped.Even time appeared to be holding its breath.Sophia stared at him.“Lucien?”He looked at her.His eyes were still golden.But beneath that terrifying light, she could see him.Her Lucien.The man who had held her when she cried.The man who had chosen her when everyone else demanded that she choose between love and freedom.The man who had once told her that he would find her no matter how many universes separated them.She reached for his hand.“Are you still in there?”His fingers closed around hers.“Always.”Sophia released a breath she hadn’t realized she was holding.Then the Creator stepped forward.“Let him go.”Sophia turned sharply.“No.”“You don’t understand what you’r