Location: Converging Timelines – Choir-Controlled Nexus
Light didn't exist here.
It was a lie. The Choir wove it from data and memory to make this place seem stable. But everything within the Nexus was on the verge of collapse.
The Choir Elders stood at the edge of a swirling timeline core — thousands of echoes twisting into a single glowing orb.
One Elder turned.
> "The Reclaimer lives."
Another replied.
> "The Seed has crowned its heir."
A third opened a capsule of fractured light.
And Aeyra stepped forward.
Her body was encased in white-gold Choir thread. Her eyes bled silver static. A halo of broken code circled her skull.
But her voice?
Her voice was still Aeyra.
> "He called me his anchor."
> "Now I'll be his weight."
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Location: Kael's Mind – Just After Awakening
Kael sat on a memory-stone, watching the city rebuild around him.
Yanis stood nearby, reconfiguring time like it was clay in her hands.
> "Do you remember her now?" she asked softly.
He nodded, slowly.
> "Aeyra was… everything. We fought together. I tried to save her."
> "You didn't save her," Yanis said quietly.
He looked up.
> "And now she's back," she continued, "not as your friend—"
> "But as their saint."
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Elsewhere – Aeyra Activates
The Choir released the limiter on her interface.
> [SAINT DESIGNATION: AEYRA-ALPHA]
[Fragment Type: Reconstruction Class]
[Trait: Silence of the Broken Loop — disables interface logic within 500m]
She blinked.
And vanished.
Appearing directly in front of a surviving timeline Earth — Earth-29.
She raised one hand.
And the planet stopped existing.
Not with fire.
But with silence.
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Location: Thronepath – Yanis Reacts
Yanis stumbled, gasping.
> [ERROR – Timeline Echo Lost: Earth-29]
[Cause: SAINT PROTOCOL – Choir-Saint Aeyra]
[Interface Stability Compromised]
Kael caught her.
> "She's here."
Yanis looked up — blood trickling from her nose.
> "She just erased an entire world like it was a bad sentence."
> "What do we do?" he asked.
She stood, shakily.
> "We meet her."
> "But not in the Choir's timeline."
She pointed behind her.
> "In the only place left where we still have the high ground."
> "The Broken Gate."
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Final Scene – Prelude to the Battle
The Gate loomed like a scar in the sky.
Kael stepped forward, his Null aura flickering like it had been stitched back together.
Yanis's Queenbringer sigil pulsed with every heartbeat.
And then—
A ripple.
Aeyra stepped through.
Beautiful. Silent. Inhuman.
She looked at Kael.
And for a moment… her voice cracked.
> "You should have let me die."
Then she turned to Yanis.
And drew her weapon — a Choir Unwriting Blade, forged from null light and lost futures.
> "I'm sorry."
> "But your story ends now."
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