Chapter 156: The Witch’s Breakthrough
SAGE POV
The powerful blast hit me hard and knocked me out.
While I climbed up from the basement floor and wiped the blood off my nose, Elena’s void energy shook the air like angry lightning. When her power hit my spell book, it caught fire. Now, the magic in the pages was turning to ash.
"The ritual circle is breaking apart!" Aiden was still trying to get to Lily while she was floating in that scary energy from another world. I yelled at him.
However, Aiden couldn’t hear me because of the leaders from another world arguing over who should take Lily away. It was more important for Viktor the vampire, Prince Ash the ice fairy, and all those other magical jerks to claim ownership than to help save everyone’s lives.
I grabbed what was left of my spell book with shaking hands. As the witch of the pack, I should know what was going on, but seeing Elena change into some kind of void monster made me feel like a child playing with toys she didn’t understand.
"Think, Sage, think," I whispered to myself, flipping through the burned pages.
That’s when I saw it. A tiny note my grandma had written in the margins of a love spell: "Emotions anchor souls to reality."
My heart started beating faster. What if dimensional shifting wasn’t about power or magic at all? What if it was about feelings?
I looked at Lily, still stuck between worlds, her face twisted in pain as she tried to fight Elena’s attack. Then I looked at Caleb, bleeding from Viktor’s claws, his mate bond with Lily causing that dangerous feedback loop Elena was using.
"Oh no," I breathed, understanding hitting me like a punch to the stomach.
Lily wasn’t just losing her connection to our realm because of her Guardian powers. She was losing it because her mental ties were being destroyed one by one. The supernatural council wanted to take her away from her pack family. Viktor striking Caleb and damaging their mate bond. Everyone treating her like a tool instead of a person.