Despair crashed through Coalition-complete like tsunami through paper walls. Sovereign's emotional warfare was perfect. Absolute. Devastating. Broadcasting hopelessness directly into their minds. Into their hearts. Into everything human. Everything emotional. Everything love-based. Everything Timeline 48 possessed distinctively. Everything being attacked systematically. Everything being negated deliberately. Everything being destroyed methodically.
Rama felt it first. Regressor experiencing forty-seven timeline failures simultaneously. Every death. Every extinction. Every failure. Every inadequacy. Everything Timeline 1 through 47 represented. Everything hopeless. Everything futile. Everything proving Timeline 48 would fail too. Would join previous attempts in extinction. Would graduate into death instead of success. Everything despair. Everything hopelessness. Everything anti-love. Everything.
