Chapter 130
A dreadful cry tore from Dax's throat as the dual halos above him stacked in perfect, impossible harmony — chaos and order fusing into something that should never have been allowed to exist. One half of him began to spread outward, forcing the world into a terrible, perfect symmetry. The other half simply swallowed everything it touched, leaving only absence in its wake.
The ground beneath him cracked in spiderweb patterns that raced outward for miles. Stones lifted and hung suspended midair before they were either ordered into perfect crystalline lattices or erased entirely. The air itself grew heavy, dense with conflicting laws of reality. Birds dropped from the sky. Trees bent away from the epicenter as if trying to flee. The very light dimmed in places and sharpened into blinding blades in others.
What—
