KESTREL POV
The dimensional barrier burst in my face.
I threw myself backward as reality cracked like broken glass, each shard showing a different world bleeding into this one. A desert mixed with an ocean. A forest grew through a city. The confusion made my stomach turn, but I forced myself to keep watching.
This was the seventh barrier failure in three hours. All because Lily was still jumping between worlds.
"Sir?" My helper, Marcus, appeared beside me with his clipboard shaking in his hands. "The Council is wanting answers. They want to know why we haven't caught the omega yet."
I wiped blood from my nose where a reality shard had cut me. "Tell the Council that hunting someone isn't as simple as they think."
But that wasn't the real trouble. The real trouble was that I was starting to understand why Lily was running, and it was making my job a lot harder.
