The form was no longer indistinct. It had not become something that could be touched, yet its influence now felt like a center that truly existed within their awareness.
Sophia stood amid the currents that continued to flow toward that point, sensing a change that was no longer subtle, but certain.
She knew.
They had reached the threshold.
"We are nearly there," she said softly.
Beside her, Adrian Blackwood watched with unwavering focus. "Or it is only just beginning," he replied.
Daniel stared at the center, holding his breath. "All the currents are connected now," he said. "There are no separate parts left."
Leonard Graves' voice came through the communication line, low and steady. "Which means there is no longer any way out."
Silence fell.
But this time.
It brought no tension.
Only certainty.
Sophia gazed deeper into the center.
She no longer saw it as something outside herself.
She felt it as something that existed within her as well.
