Chapter 120: Unexpected Consequences
Lily POV
I was dying and not dying at the same time.
The silver fire tore through my body as I poured everything I had into closing the reality tear. Pain beyond anything I’d ever felt burned through every cell, but I held on because Caleb needed me to. Because everyone needed me to.
Then suddenly, the pain stopped.
I opened my eyes expecting to see nothing - expecting to be gone, swallowed by the spell. Instead, I saw everything.
Three different forms of everything.
In one world, I stood in the forest clearing where the witches had been casting their magic. The reality tear was sealed, leaving only scorched ground behind. Sage and her coven sisters were picking themselves up from the ground, living but exhausted.
In another world, the same area was covered in ice and snow. The witches were there too, but they looked older, sadder. Some were missing totally. The reality tear had never been fixed in this version - it had grown until it swallowed half the forest.
In the third world, there was no clearing at all. Just empty space where the ground should be, floating in a void filled with stars that weren’t quite the right color.
All three worlds existed at the same time, layered on top of each other like transparent pieces of paper. And somehow, I was seeing all of them.
"Lily?" Caleb’s voice came from somewhere far away. "Lily, can you hear me?"