Hope turned ten months old and the dimensional scar decided to celebrate by opening fifteen micro-rifts simultaneously which was approximately twelve more than our "manageable baseline" and sent the Covenant researchers into organized panic.
"This isn't random fluctuation." Silas was pulling data faster than I could process. "This is coordinated. Synchronized. Something's triggering mass rift formation."
Something's triggering it. Right. Because we couldn't just have one problem at a time.
"What kind of something?" Kael's strategic question while simultaneously organizing alliance response teams because fifteen rifts meant potential manifestations and we needed to be ready.
"Unknown." Silas pulled up readings that looked like angry scribbles to my non-scientist brain. "But the signature is—it's similar to the original scar. Like something's resonating with the prison break energy. Amplifying it."
