CHAPTER 25: THE ECHOES OF TIME

Scene 1: Threads of Change

The Grand Observatory of the Resonance Keepers had been transformed beyond recognition. What was once a circular chamber on top the highest tower now existed in multiple dimensions simultaneously. Ellara stood at its center, watching as reality continued to rewrite itself.

The stone at her throat had grown, its surface now a constantly changing map of the new world's consciousness. Images flickered across its surface—cities rebuilding themselves in impossible geometries, forests that grew in patterns that defied natural law, beings that shifted between different states of existence.

Kael worked at a table that seemed to float in multiple spaces at the same time. His staff, now more alive than ever, projected complex patterns into the air. "The convergence isn't stopping," he said, his voice tight with concern. "It's accelerating."