Sage POV
The world burst around me as reality cracked like broken glass. One second I was standing in my kitchen making tea, the next I was falling through a void filled with screaming shadows and twisted light. My witch senses kicked in as I threw up a protection spell, but the magic felt wrong here - weak and unstable.
I landed hard on what felt like solid ground, though I couldn't see anything in the whirling darkness. Pain shot through my shoulder as I rolled to my feet, looking for any sign of where I was or what had happened.
"Sage!" a familiar voice called out. Prince Ash materialized from the shadows, his fae power creating a small bubble of silver light around us. Behind him, I could make out the shapes of others - Caleb, Dmitri, Elder Iris, and in the middle, a girl who flickered like a broken television.
Lily Carter. The one causing all this chaos.
