Quantum Realm - Temporal Junction
The hound led Lynette through mirrored corridors showing every Caelum-Spiritborn confrontation since 1348 Florence. "You're his contingency plan," she realized, watching the 1927 Shanghai iteration dissolve into equations. "A self-replicating algorithm against his own corruption."
The dog's form destabilized into Caelum's teenage visage from 1589 – the year Isolde first split his soul. "My human half grows weaker each reset," his hologram confessed. "When the hound's quantum matrix fully degrades..."
Modern Timeline - Blood Moon Convergence
Amberleigh's ritual circle pulsed with stolen chronon particles. "Time to meet your maker, Fido!" She hurled Isolde's athame at the hound – but Lynette intercepted it, the blade transmuting into Caelum's 1600s love letters.
"His oath wasn't to guard me," she whispered as the letters combusted into protective runes, "but to preserve the chance we might break free."
The hound's form solidified into Caelum's true appearance for 0.5 seconds – just long enough for their hands to phase through each other – before collapsing into a timeline map pointing to Isolde's original sin.