His Untouchable Omega
She shrieked and retreated into the light, her golden ship ascending in a frantic, wounded retreat.
The other ships followed, fleeing the corruption that was spreading through their fleet. They left behind the silver city, the millions of dust-Omegas, and the one thing they had come for.
The baby descended slowly, landing in the black sand. The purple light faded, leaving him looking like a normal, beautiful infant once more. But as I reached for him, Rowan pulled me back.
"Look at the water, Lyra," he said, his voice trembling.
The ocean was coming back. Without the Citadel’s gravity or the Ancients’ beams to hold it, the Atlantic was rushing toward the exposed seabed in a wall of white foa