Chapter 12: The Copenhagen DeceptionModern Timeline - St. Lorraine Physics Olympiad

Lynette's quantum computing prototype malfunctioned, projecting Isolde's consciousness into the Homecoming king's body. "Checkmate," the possessed jock whispered, his letterman jacket bleeding 17th-century plague symbols. "You can't collapse waveforms while emotionally entangled."

Caelum sabotaged the machine with a Viking-era rune stone. The explosion left every classroom clock stuck at 5:55 AM.

Ancient Timeline - 1632 Copenhagen

Elspeth #37 seduced astronomer Tycho Brahe's clone to steal his supernova research. "The stars are Isolde's stitching needles," she told Caelum while planting bombs in Uraniborg Castle. "Burn the data or burn with me."

He chose the latter, watching her dissolve in phosphorus flames that birthed the northern lights.

Modern Timeline - Temporal Quarantine Zone

Amberleigh hijacked the PA system:

*"Attention meat puppets! Due to rampant timeline violations, prom is now a 72-hour causal loop featuring:

1. Infinite shrimp buffet from parallel universes

2. Schrödinger's slow dance (simultaneously romantic & toxic)

3. Black hole piñata filled with everyone's repressed memories!"*

Lynette found Caelum burning love letters in the singularity's event horizon. "How many times," she grabbed his wolf-shaped lighter, "have we done this tango?"

The flames revealed tattooed coordinates – the exact GPS of her childhood home's ashes.