Back on the shattered Earth, the Vanguard was in chaos.
Mina returned—emerging from a dimensional rift with new marks glowing across her skin.
She'd been touched by Vaelith's influence.
But she smiled, as if nothing was wrong.
Lucien was wary. Nyx sensed it too.
> "She's... fragmented," Nyx whispered. "Multiple timelines stitched into one body."
Mina insisted she was still herself. She warned them:
> "Vaelith is coming. He doesn't erase timelines. He rewrites them. We're already part of his story."