The Spiritborn traced the obsidian shard embedded in her palm - a relic from the Aztec massacre now pulsing with Mayan glyphs. In the library's restricted section, Caelum unrolled a 16th-century codex showing Elspeth's incarnation as a Mayan priestess, her hands dripping with quantum-entangled cenote water.
"Your 49th life forged the Blood Moon Accord," he said, avoiding her gaze. "The kiss that shattered Isolde's empire... also bound our fates tighter."
1524 Timeline - Mayan Collapse
Elspeth #49 stood atop the Pyramid of Kukulkan, her ceremonial blade hovering between two hearts:
1. The Spanish conquistador bearing Caelum's face
2. The jaguar-warrior prince with Isolde's serpent eyes
"Choose your poison," Isolde's voice slithered from the quetzal-feathered oracle. "Kiss the conqueror and spread his plague... or bed the beast and birth my new dynasty."
Her dagger pierced both. The resulting temporal tsunami preserved the Mayan codices in quantum superposition.
Modern Timeline - Soccer Field Ritual
Amberleigh chalked Isolde's serpent sigil across the penalty box. "Let's play apocalyptic sudoku!" Hybrid students materialized wearing jade death masks, their cleats leaving spacetime rifts.
Lynette's blood crystallized into a Mayan calendar wheel. The countdown read: "13.0.0.0.0 - 4 Ahau 3 K'ank'in" – the exact date of her 18th birthday.