Chapter 127: Caleb’s Desperation
Caleb POV
"LILY!" I screamed as her hand slipped through mine like smoke.
She was dying right in front of me. One second she was solid, the next she flickered like a broken light bulb. The spatial tear was pulling her in, and I couldn’t grab hold of her.
"I can see her!" I yelled to the others, but they were all fighting the new Void Walkers coming through the reopened first tear. "She’s disappearing!"
Lily’s eyes met mine through her ghostly form. She was scared. Really scared. And that made something angry wake up inside my chest.
"Don’t you dare give up on me," I whispered, even though she probably couldn’t hear me over all the fights.
I reached for her again, but my hands went right through her body. It was like trying to hug air. The planar magic was eating her alive, pulling her into some place between worlds where she might never come back.
That’s when the other Lily spoke up. The older, sadder version of my mate who claimed to be from a timeline where everyone died.
"She’s not just fading," Future Lily said. "She’s being pulled into the void between worlds. If she disappears totally, she’ll be lost forever."
"How do we stop it?" I asked.
"You can’t," Future Lily answered coldly. "In my world, this is where she died. This is where you all failed."