The Abandoned Luna's Return
From its center, a single beam of clinical, sterile light shot down, hitting the horizon of the Intersection city.
I didn't hear an explosion. I heard a **Delete** key being pressed.
The city—the beautiful, chaotic sprawl of glass towers and shifter dens—didn't crumble. It simply became a silhouette of white light and then vanished, replaced by a flat, featureless plane of grey marble. Thousands of lives, thousands of stories, were being "sanitized" into a clean slate.
"Marcus... the others..." Sarah whispered, her voice a mix of her childhood innocence and her teenage grief. She stood tall, her brown eyes glowing with a steady, ancient light. "They're being erased, Elara. Not killed. Erased