The dimensional fabric around the outer rim territories began to shimmer with an intensity that defied every principle of cosmic stability that Reed had spent two decades establishing. As the Wounded Sage monitored the unprecedented energy readings from the Eternal Citadel's observation deck, he witnessed something that challenged his fundamental understanding of what was possible.
Zara Voidborn stood at the center of a reality distortion field that should have torn apart the fabric of existence itself. Instead, she moved through the chaotic energies with the fluid grace of someone who had been born to navigate the spaces between consciousness and void. Her consciousness-void synthesis abilities had evolved beyond anything the older generation had ever achieved, allowing her to manipulate both forces simultaneously without creating the dangerous instabilities that had plagued their early experiments.
