Chapter 25: The Quantum Scar

Modern Timeline - Saint Lorraine Academy

Lynette's fingertips left glowing afterimages as she scrolled through centuries of surveillance footage – every iteration of Caelum at 17:55 PM, etching the same equation into different eras' surfaces:

· 1589 Prague's astronomical clock

· 1945 Los Alamos plutonium core

· 2024 classroom whiteboard

The numbers coalesced into a bleeding coordinates: 37.7749° N, 122.4194° W – the exact location of her childhood home's ashes.

Time Fracture - 1906 San Francisco

Caelum's pocket watch froze at 5:12 AM as the earthquake hit. Spiritborn #83 shoved him into a collapsing opera house, her last words buried under rubble: "She's not rewriting history... she's deleting it!"

Modern Revelation - Quantum Archaeology Lab

Amberleigh's hologram materialized, dripping virtual quicksilver. "Isolde's been pruning timelines where we win," she smirked, projecting a fractal map of erased victories. "Your little romance? Just a bug in her system she's too sentimental to patch."

Lynette's tear hit the quantum console, crystallizing into 1906 opera tickets. The date: April 17, 1906 – 24 hours before the great quake.