Brothers in Arms

The void between realities tasted of copper and forgotten dreams as Reed and Lyralei emerged from the collapsed Omega Sanctuary. The crystalline seed from Serenitas pulsed once in Reed's palm—a heartbeat of hope in an ocean of despair—before he carefully tucked it away. They had no time to mourn the Children of Silence, no luxury of grief for another paradise lost.

The Dreaming Observatory awaited, but first, they needed allies.

"Reed Thorne."

The voice emerged from the darkness like smoke given form, and with it came a presence that made reality itself recoil. Reed turned to see something that shouldn't exist—a fragment of the Entropy Collective that had somehow achieved individual consciousness.