POV: Thelma

The pain hit me without warning. I gasped, clutching my chest as agony that wasn't mine flooded through the twin bond. Theo's cosmic awareness, normally a distant hum at the edge of my consciousness, suddenly screamed with urgency. Riley. The team. They were dying.

"Xavier!" I shouted, and he was beside me instantly. "They're not going to make it. The ship is failing. They're still in the Void and they're dying."

Xavier's face went hard. "Can Theo reach them?"

"He can sense them, but he can't touch the Void directly without losing his grip on reality." Through the bond, I felt Theo's frustration, his desperate desire to save...