Chapter 13: The Berlin Codex

Modern Timeline - St. Lorraine Academy

The Spiritborn traced frost patterns over the Berlin Wall fragment in the history wing. Her breath crystallized into Stasi surveillance reports from 1987 – the year her "father" died in a wolf attack. Amberleigh's laughter echoed through the PA system:

"Fun fact, Frosty! Your daddy dearest was Isolde's favorite werewolf sleeper agent... until he grew a conscience."

Cold War Timeline - 1987 East Berlin

Caelum posed as a Stasi interrogator, injecting truth serum into Asset #500 (Lynette's biological father). "The Spiritborn program needs your daughter's DNA," he lied through cigarette smoke, while secretly sabotaging Isolde's eugenics lab.

The asset's final transmission: "Tell my girl... her nightmares are subway maps to the truth."

Modern Timeline - Underground Bunker

Lynette's quantum tattoo illuminated faded blueprints – the academy built atop Isolde's transdimensional gate. Amberleigh kicked open a cryo-chamber containing her own mummified corpse from 1600s Salem.

"Meet my original meat suit," she grinned. "Now let's reboot the apocalypse!"