While on the other side of the cracked street, Maria finally allowed herself to breathe.
The collision had not happened.
Selena's golden aura had withdrawn inward. Celestia's platinum presence had softened into controlled authority rather than unleashed force. The three-way detonation that Maria had feared saintess, princess, and Atlantis princess tearing apart the capital in the middle of an already unstable crisis had paused at the edge.
For now.
Honestly, Maria had been worried. The way everything had been escalating… the sharp words, the emotional instability, the way Sofia's aura had flared when Razeal's name entered the conversation if things had progressed even a step further, Sofia might truly have clashed with both Celestia and Selena.
And that would not have been a simple fight.
That would have been devastation.
Seeing it calm down even temporarily Maria allowed herself one small, light breath before her expression hardened again.
