POV: Thea (Riley's granddaughter, age 15)

I was organizing files in Grandma Riley's archive when reality fractured. Not physically. Not like the Void War she'd documented in thousands of pages surrounding me. This was different. My perception split into branches, showing me not what was but what could be.

I saw twelve realities. All of them. Simultaneously collapsing like buildings made of sand. I watched Prime Existence crumble. Earth-Arcanum dissolves. Test Reality where my great-uncle James lived vanished into nothing. All twelve allied realities, gone in moments.

And standing at the center of the destruction was a figure. Not human. Not even cosmic entity like The Architect Grandma had written...