Ancient Timeline - 132 BCE Alexandria
The Wolf-Prince's sandal crushed papyrus fragments of Eratosthenes' lost calculations. "You mistake order for tyranny," he warned the Spiritborn priestess burning star charts. "Isolde's algorithms need chaos to–"
Her sacrificial dagger flashed. "Then let me be the first random variable."
Modern Timeline - Data Center Showdown
Lynette jacked into Isolde's cloud backup wearing VR gloves that translated code into tactile ancient Greek. "Your encryption's got a backdoor," she whispered, fingers dancing across holographic Library of Alexandria scrolls. "Hipparchus' star catalog wasn't lost – you weaponized it!"
The black dog's howl manifested as a DDoS attack, its quantum signature overloading:
1. 1589 printing press logs
2. 1945 nuclear launch codes
3. 2024 social media algorithms
Time Fracture Convergence
Caelum materialized simultaneously as:
1. 14th-century knight impaled on his own sword
2. 1920s physicist dissolving in radium
3. Modern teacher clutching Lynette's debugging tool
"Choose which version survives," Isolde's voice boomed through collapsing timelines.
Lynette kissed all three. The resulting temporal shockwave birthed a new constellation – Cygnus 500 – its stars forming their shared equation.