Chapter 144: Dimensional Sensitivity
LILY POV
I screamed as reality shattered around me like broken glass.
One second I was standing in the Alpha house with Caleb, Aiden, and Brock. The next second, I was in seventeen different places at once. In one world, I was facing monsters with claws as long as knives. In another, I was running from a fire that burned everything I loved. In a third, I was watching my own funeral.
"Lily!" Caleb’s voice sounded far away, like he was calling from the bottom of a well. "Stay with me!"
I tried to focus on his face, but it kept changing. Sometimes he had a scar across his cheek. Sometimes his eyes were green instead of blue. Sometimes he wasn’t there at all.
"I can’t," I gasped, falling to my knees. "There are too many. Too many worlds pressing in."
The worst part wasn’t the pain. It was the confusion. I knew I was supposed to be in Silver Peak, but I could also feel myself dying in a hospital bed in another world. I could taste smoke from a fire that wasn’t happening here. I could feel rain that wasn’t falling in this world.
"Which one is real?" I whispered.
"This one," Aiden said firmly. "This world. This time. Focus on us."
But how could I focus when I was watching him die in three different realities? In one, he was killed by rogues. In another, he drowned saving a child. In the third, he was old and sick, calling my name with his last breath.
"You’re all going to die," I said, tears running down my face. "I can see it happening. Over and over and over."
"Those are other worlds," Brock said, his voice soft. "Not this one."