Chapter 162: The First Emotion
LILY POV
The scream that tore from my throat as Luna’s memories vanished wasn’t human.
It came from somewhere deeper than my breath, deeper than my heart. It was the sound of a soul being ripped in half. The basement walls shook with the force of it, cracks spreading across the concrete like spider webs.
"Luna!" I lunged toward her crumpled form, but the Void Walkers stepped between us, their empty eyes watching me with new interest.
"Fascinating," the lead thing said. "Your emotional response is... unexpected."
I wanted to tear them apart. I wanted to destroy Elena for what she’d done. I wanted to bring Luna back from wherever her mind had gone. But as I reached for the dimensional energy that had been getting stronger inside me, something strange happened.
Nothing came.
The power that had been growing for weeks, the energy that made Elena so afraid of me, just... stopped. Like someone had turned off a switch in my chest.
"What did you do?" I demanded, spinning to face Elena.
She wiped blood from her mouth, her void energy sparking around her fingers. "I took what was mine," she growled. "All those stolen memories, all that power Luna was meant to have. It flows through me now."
"You’re lying." But even as I said it, I could feel the emptiness where my dimensional powers used to be. The steady humming under my skin was gone. The sense of being connected to various realities had vanished.
"Am I?" Elena’s laugh was sharp and cruel. "Try to link, little omega. Try to move between dimensions. You’ll find that particular gift has been... redirected."