Shia’s Dream Warning

The Balance Keeper known as Vesper had experienced precisely three prophetic dreams in her four-century career of maintaining cosmic stability. The first had warned of the Inheritance Wars. The second had revealed the location of the Primordial Fragments. The third had shown her the face of a child who would either save or destroy everything they had built.

She had not expected the fourth dream to arrive in the form of a conversation with a dead woman in what appeared to be a library that existed in the spaces between realities.

"You're planning to interfere," Shia said, her voice carrying the kind of gentle certainty that made Vesper's consciousness stir with recognition that transcended simple concern. She sat behind a desk constructed from materials that seemed to shift between different states of existence, surrounded by books that wrote themselves while she spoke. "I can see it in the way your emerald networks are calculating intervention protocols."