Learning to Love Time Loops Without Going Insane

Bolt felt something change within Barron’s realm. It felt much cleaner and more like her own. She hoped someday they could do the same for Grannus, she liked the rock spirit and wanted to see them again. Right now though she had something to do. It was time to ignite a star in the void. She knew if she did it just right that Barron and her realms would start to work in sync and in turn this would help Cal to become more in tune with both of them.

She thought that Cal would need every bit of power boost she could give him before this

was all over, so she went to work. First she gathered as much spare energy from around her realm as she could find, making sure not to disrupt the young pool at all. Then she peered deep into her darkened sky until she found the deepest black she could. She concentrated and poured every iota of energy she had collected, plus the majority of her own life force into a blast of light that shot directly at the spot she found. It hit the spot and erupted, slowly growing bigger.

Bolt collapsed to the ground, the effort costing her years of built of energy, but she thought it was worth it. It would take time, she knew, but once it finished their realms would be bigger than the sum of their parts. She would do her part to save her mother and her new friends. This universe was her home, and anyone who threatened her home had to deal with her.

As she drifted off into a deep sleep the golden ball far above her shimmered and grew, slowly piercing the membrane between her and Barrron’s realms, pushing the faintest sliver of light through. It had begun.