The shadow was pitch black with no body or facial features. Only its limbs, head, and fingers were shaped, making it look humanoid.
The shadow's shadow fell on sleeping Janet, but it didn't have the abyssal black like the original shadow.
It moved its hands towards Janet and uttered in a deep yet ethereal voice that sounded neither masculine nor feminine.
[You are an anomaly. You shouldn't exist. You were never supposed to exist. Your father… whoever he was, he didn't belong to the timeline he met your mother in. You were never supposed to be born.
Janet Liousenne… You need to die. You need to cease to exist. You are the reason Rudy has to die. Even in the last timeline, you weren't supposed to exist, but we didn't do anything, hoping you wouldn't be a problem.
We thought you were just one of the thousands of other anomalies which would automatically cease to exist once they were eaten up by the mother universe. But you… were formidable.
