Pact of Blood
It was a process of erasure so profound that it felt like being unwritten by the hand of the universe itself.
He focused on the final image: Oakhaven, safe and mundane. He seeded the world with the result of their struggle, but he purged the cost. He stripped away the trauma, the cosmic war, and the identity of the three people who had ended it. The light of the Zero Point swallowed them whole.
Three years later; The market square on 5th Street was crowded, buzzing with the sound of merchants and low-key chatter. Rain streaked the cobblestones, blurring the world outside into a soft, cozy watercolor of gray and green.