All Chapters of Moonbound: Chapter 131 - Chapter 140

The black eye remained suspended above them, perfectly still against the night sky. Emily could not tear her gaze away from it. She had spent so long believing the First Soul was the beginning of everything that the idea of something existing before it made her feel as though the ground beneath her had disappeared. The First Soul had been ancient beyond comprehension. It had created worlds, souls, possibilities, and timelines. It had known things no living being could possibly know. Yet now a voice from somewhere beyond the stars had called it a prisoner. Not a creator. Not a god. A prisoner. Emily tightened her grip on Elias's hand while Kael moved instinctively closer to her, and even the other Kael stopped arguing with reality long enough to stare upward. None of them spoke because there was nothing they could say. The truth they had fought for was suddenly beginning to look like the smallest piece of something far more terrifying.Auren was the first to move. He stepped forward sl

Emily stopped several feet from them.Every instinct in her body screamed at her to run toward Kael, to grab him, to pull him away from whatever had taken hold of him. But she couldn't move. The two men standing in front of her looked like Kael, sounded like Kael, even carried the same familiar scars, yet the blackness in their eyes made them strangers. Elias stood behind Emily, trembling so violently that she could feel it through his hand.“Daddy?” he whispered.Both Kaels turned toward him.Their heads moved at exactly the same time.Emily's stomach twisted.The Kael from her timeline smiled.The other Kael smiled too.Then they spoke together.“Not yet.”Elias screamed.Emily pulled him behind her.“No.”The two Kaels stepped forward.Emily raised her hands.“If there's something inside you, fight it.”The Kael closest to her stopped.For a moment, his face changed.The blackness in his eyes flickered.“Emily…”Her heart jumped.“Kael?”He looked at her, and for one brief second s

Emily couldn't move.The woman standing beyond the final doorway looked exactly like her, but there was something profoundly wrong about seeing her alive when every other version of herself was lying motionless behind the thousands of open doors. The dead Emilys weren't simply bodies scattered across different worlds. Some were young. Some were old. Some wore clothing from eras Emily had never seen. Some had scars she didn't recognize. Some were still holding weapons. Others were curled against walls as though they had died trying to escape. Yet every one of them had the same face.Every one of them had been her.And the woman standing in front of them looked at Emily with an expression that wasn't anger or hatred.It was pity.Emily swallowed.“What happened to them?”The other Emily didn't answer immediately. Her eyes moved past Emily toward Kael, then toward Elias, and finally toward the other version of Kael standing a few feet away.“They made the same mistake you are about to ma

There was no falling.That was the first thing Emily noticed.She had expected the doorway to throw them somewhere, perhaps into another world or another timeline, but there was no sensation of movement at all. One moment she had been standing beside Kael, Elias, and the baby, and the next there was nothing beneath her feet, nothing above her head, and nothing around her except an endless darkness that seemed to have no direction. She couldn't tell whether she was standing or floating. She couldn't even tell whether she was breathing. Yet she could still feel Kael's hand wrapped around hers.She squeezed it.He squeezed back.“I'm here,” he whispered.Emily closed her eyes for a moment.“So am I.”Elias was on her other side.“I'm here too.”Emily smiled despite everything.“Good.”Then the baby laughed.The sound was tiny and innocent.It echoed through the darkness.And something answered.Not a voice.A heartbeat.Boom.The darkness moved.Boom.Emily opened her eyes.Boom.Somethi

The voices did not stop.They came from every direction, overlapping until Emily could no longer distinguish one from another. Some sounded young. Some sounded old. Some were frightened. Some were angry. Some were crying. But every single one belonged to her.Emily.Emily.Emily.The sound traveled through the newborn universe like a wave.Kael moved closer.“Don't answer them.”Emily looked at him.“Why?”“Because we don't know what they want.”Auren shook his head.“They already told us.”Emily turned.“What?”Auren looked toward the approaching universes.“They're coming home.”The Original nodded slowly.“And if they all arrive…”She didn't finish.Emily's stomach tightened.“What happens?”The Original looked at her.“They merge.”Kael's expression hardened.“Merge with what?”“Everything.”Elias stared at the distant worlds.“You mean all those universes become one?”“No.”The Original's face became grim.“They become one consciousness.”Emily understood immediately.“All of us.