Kael moved before anyone else could react.
The moment the observing mass surged toward the collapsing vault corridor, he slammed his hand against the emergency resonance lockout on the chamber wall.
Nothing happened.
The entire system was already beyond local control.
"Sarya!" he shouted again.
On the center platform, her body arched violently as harmonic energy poured through the hybrid scar in blinding waves. The air around her looked fractured, reality itself bending under the pressure of direct bridge integration.
Blood streaked from her nose and ears now.
The storm above Earth tightened around her resonance signature like a living cyclone.
And inside the storm—
Sarya could not breathe.
The memory of the destroyed civilization kept flooding through her in fragments so vivid they no longer felt like echoes.
She stood beneath silver trees while children laughed somewhere nearby.
Then the sky split open.
