Chapter 142: Victory’s Cost
CALEB POV
I called Lily’s name, but she didn’t hear me.
She was standing right in front of me, but her eyes were looking somewhere else. Somewhere I couldn’t see. It was like she was watching a movie that only she could watch.
"Lily," I said again, louder this time. "The battle is over. We won."
She blinked and looked at me, but it took her a few seconds to focus. When she did, I could see pain in her eyes.
"Did we?" she asked quietly. "Did we really win?"
I looked around at the battlefield. The supernatural union had defeated the Void Walkers. The dimensional tears were fixed. Reality was stable again. Everyone was celebrating.
"Yeah," I said. "We did it. The worlds are safe."
"But at what cost?" she asked.
I knew what she meant. Lily had saved everyone by becoming a dimensional anchor. But now she existed in all realities at once. She was here with me, but she was also somewhere else. Always somewhere else.
"Are you okay?" I asked.