In 2049, the moon cracked. Not physically—but temporally.
Satellite data showed it in two phases at once: full and waning.
It was Damien's fault. One of his breaches had echoed into lunar orbit. Tidal patterns began to fracture. Earth's gravity trembled.
Governments panicked. Religions fractured.
Damien stared at the moon from a mountaintop in Tibet.
"I went too far," he whispered.
But it was already too late to go back.