REJECTED LUNA RETURNS FOR WAR!
“Find another way or we do it together. Those are the only options.”
Five seconds.
I looked at her.
At the woman who had turned around after four minutes.
At everything.
“Together,” I said.
The window peaked.
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I activated the reversal fully.
Not the partial hold I’d been maintaining — the full opening, the complete inversion of the outward channel, everything I had pointed in the wrong direction from what thirty years of binding had made my body want to do.
The chamber responded.
The white runes surged — brighter than before, brighter than the convergence had made them, the specific brightness of a system being run in reverse generating heat it wasn’t designed to manage.