Chapter 1369

He saw them as they had been. Lucy kissing him on the beach. Sophie during the first storm. Grace weeping after her first nightmare. Stella dancing alone. Zoey watching him from the trees. Rose naked beneath the moon, whispering the first spiral into the dirt.

Then the image shifted.

He saw them all changed - wearing golden tattoos, eyes glowing faintly, moving together in a circle around a much larger spiral carved into the earth. In the center stood him.

Not just watching.

Leading.

Jude gasped and fell back from the water. The vision faded instantly.

The others didn't look surprised. Lucy knelt beside him and kissed his shoulder.

"We all saw something," she whispered. "I think... it's showing us what's coming."

"It's showing us what we are, " Rose corrected gently.