Ancient Timeline - 1023 AD Monastery
Young Caelum's blood dripped onto illuminated manuscripts, each drop forming wolf-shaped error corrections in the Vulgate Bible. "You'll thank me," Isolde whispered as she chained him to the word "Aeternitas", its ink transforming into quantum-entangled mercury.
Modern Timeline - Quantum Cryptography Lab
Lynette's breath fogged the cold server room as she decrypted Caelum's last message from the time stream: "The curse isn't in our blood – it's in the spaces between letters." Her fingers flew across keyboards, reprogramming the school's AI to search for:
· The missing serif in 1589's printing press logs
· The quantum spin variance in "Aeternitas" ink particles
· The Fibonacci sequence hidden in Bible verse numbering
Temporal Convergence - 1589/2024 Simultaneity
The black dog's howl synchronized across centuries as both versions of Caelum struck:
· 1589: Silver dagger through Isolde's quicksilver heart
· 2024: Quantum virus purging her cloud backup
The resulting chronon implosion left Lynette standing in Saint Lorraine's ruins – both past and present versions overlapping. "We didn't break the cycle," she whispered to Caelum's fading hologram, "we became its encryption key."