POV: Thea

The vision came during breakfast. I was eating toast when reality fractured around me. Not just showing me futures this time. Showing me the path. The only path where everyone survived.

I saw myself merging with The Unmaker. Teaching it love. Teaching it chaos. Changing it from the inside until it understood why existence was beautiful.

And I saw it work.

The Unmaker learning. Growing. Evolving. Choosing to protect reality instead of unmake it. Everyone survived. All eleven realities. Every person. Every consciousness.

But the cost. I saw what happened to me. Saw the transformation. Saw myself return as something neither human nor Unmaker. Changed forever. A hybrid...