Chapter 17: The Quantum Immortal

Modern Timeline - Saint Lorraine Academy

The black dog's paw prints glowed radioactive green across the football field. Seventeen-year-old Elara (Spirit Child) traced them to an abandoned quantum computing lab, where her bullies floated in stasis pods filled with Isolde's nanite-infused mercury.

"Your parents' failed experiment," hissed the dog - its true form flickering between wolf and human. "They tried to outsmart the 500-year curse by cloning Isolde's alchemy through quantum programming."

Flashback - Laboratory Incident (2003)

Young Elara watched through ventilation shafts as her geneticist parents injected wolf DNA into her embryonic clone. The containment chamber exploded when Isolde's consciousness hijacked the AI system, leaving Elara as the sole survivor with time-shifting scars.

Modern Conflict

The black dog's jaws clamped around Isolde's latest host - the school's "nice guy" valedictorian. "You can't code your way out of blood magic, little programmer," it growled as Elara's touch dissolved the nanites into Norse runes.