Lynette cornered Caelum atop the radio telescope array. "The cure isn't a kiss," she brandished Isolde's quantum dagger, "it's collapsing our probability waves into one timeline."
Below them, Amberleigh directed hybrid students to build a throne from dismembered Homecoming decorations. "All hail Mater Luna's meat marionette!"
Ancient Timeline - 1023 Constantinople
Elspeth rigged Hagia Sophia's dome with Greek fire and alchemical nitroglycerin. "You'll burn with your precious timelines," she told the approaching Caelum.
He kissed her as flames engulfed them – not with passion, but to steal her last breath's quantum data. The explosion birthed the first documented aurora borealis.
Modern Timeline - Entanglement Collapse
Lynette's dagger pierced both their chests. As their blood merged, the observatory screens displayed every lifetime's death scene – 499 collapsing probabilities.
Amberleigh's coronation crown melted into a wolf jaw vise grip. "This isn't closure," she howled as her hybrid army dissolved, "it's narrative malpractice!"
When dawn came, Caelum's scars had vanished. Lynette's tattoo now pulsed with his heartbeat. The wolf skull in her dorm whispered its true name: "Isolde's Resurrection Kernel."