[Bonus thanks to RikStingRay <3]
Xarvenya's fingers finally loosened from the fabric gathered in her palm.
She had held herself still through the entire tribulation, even when Sylas had been reduced to little more than blackened bone and fragments of a skull, because there had been nothing she could do from where she stood.
Now the pressure covering the Milky Way was gone, the white-gold lightning had vanished with it, and the hole Sylas had torn through the ceiling remained open above them as proof that she could finally breathe.
Nosphaleen's reaction came faster. A brilliant smile spread across her face, and the warmth that followed surprised even her. She had believed Sylas would find a way through, or at least told herself that enough times that she believed it, but watching him actually tear Judgment apart with his own hands still felt good in a way that was impossible to describe.
