"What?!"
Argider stared at the man in front of her, her heart pounding so hard it seemed to echo in her ears.
There was no way. No possible way she had removed magic from the world. Unless... unless it was her, from another timeline, the one she never knew existed.
Everything she thought she understood had shattered in an instant.
She had always thought the accusations thrown at her were nothing more than paranoid delusions, baseless claims.
But now, as reality swirled and twisted around her, she realized with a sickening clarity that they had been true all along.
She had been the source.
She had caused this chaos, this calamity.
She was the one who had torn the magic from existence.
She had been the virus, the anomaly, the scum of it all.
The very thing she'd been running from, and yet, she was it.
