-DAVIAN-
She didn’t remember the lightning.
Not the static, not the fall through fractured glass, not the way she used to say his name like it was a secret they shared.
But she looked at him like she felt something. That mattered.
The shimmer closed behind her, leaving that fragile girl with wonder in her eyes and quiet in her throat. Davian watched her like you watch a déjà vu you don’t trust.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5ylFcNGkZ
He wanted to smirk, say something snarky — but the truth pressed harder:
She’s real this time.
And that scared him more than he’d admit.
He circled her slowly, catching her scent — something like lavender and notebook paper, like memory — and let the words fall out before he could stop them:59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSpoBR0H0om
“You look different without the lightning.”
He felt Arden tense behind her, already bristling like he could guard her from old truths. Cute. Pointless. Davian had lost her in a dozen timelines — Arden couldn’t even hold on in one.
But this one… this one felt anchored.
When he asked about kissing in a collapsing timeline, it wasn’t a line.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhuqmPspodB
It was half a memory.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAwuuAX3JfQ
One she hadn’t lived.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRJbPnSqVK6
Yet.
-ARDEN-
He hated this place.
The way the ceiling curved into nothing.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIAqbiD45Dh
The way every shadow hummed with wrongness.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2WHFxC2V2F
But mostly, he hated them.
Davian. Mikael. Parasitic ghosts who clung to timelines that should’ve died.
And now Elowyn — his Elowyn — had walked right into their trap.
He watched the way Davian circled her, saw the way her cheeks flushed, the way her lips parted just slightly. Not in fear. In curiosity.
Arden’s fists clenched.
She didn’t know. She couldn’t.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGEsfPxC2P4
What this place did to people.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKAo3VNiIoJ
What Davian did — with his casual smirks and history he never earned.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsC4B8pTRRK
Mikael, too — standing there like some tragic poet who already knew how it would end.
They weren’t supposed to be here.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqBhHv5S0sJ
This moment wasn’t supposed to happen.
Arden stepped between them, voice hard:59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡngQUehiHgk
“She’s not here for this.”
But she was looking at them like she’d already been chosen.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcY187F6G2e
And that terrified him more than anything else.
-MIKAEL-
He had seen her before.
In bits of corrupted code, in places where time folded wrong.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXqiV70pdhM
Sometimes she was laughing.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ33Q8qXgR2Z
Once, she was screaming.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFzwB1iT1o4
Another time, she was holding a paper crane and whispering his name like a promise — soft and lopsided, the way kids do when they’re still learning how to love.
But this Elowyn... this one hadn’t met him yet. Not here.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4nMh0TcfKl
And somehow, that hurt more than the memories.
He watched the moment settle between them — the way Davian played it cool, the way Arden burned like a fuse — and stayed quiet.
She didn’t need more riddles. Not yet.
She needed truth, the kind that wrapped around you slowly until it became your new skin.
So he said, gently:59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR7EdO2wHRi
“You don’t know what you are yet, Elowyn. But you will.”
He didn’t say:59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxYaE7bSOU
You used to draw stars on my arm with washable marker.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ODQIHkkZg
You named a paper crane after me.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQfr8st3o1j
You saved me once, when we were small and the world still made sense.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkEkP7MXy3b
You died in my world.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuAUlXAnw6q
You used to call me Mio.
He just stepped back and let the timeline breathe.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuolyCJ2bW1
Because now it was hers to unravel.
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