Chapter 102: Bonds Tested

Xander's POV

The beast defied every natural law, its form shifting between states of matter like a nightmare made flesh. My primal wolf raged against its very existence, recognizing it as an affront to reality itself. But as I watched Lyra face the creature, her cosmic song rippling through dimensions, my fear wasn't for our world – it was for her.

"Lyra, stop!" I roared, seeing how the cosmic frequencies were affecting her. Her form was beginning to blur at the edges, as if she too were being unmade. "You're tearing yourself apart!"

She either couldn't hear me or couldn't stop. The song continued, reality warping around her like heat waves off hot asphalt. The creature writhed, caught between dimensions, but it wasn't going quietly.

"Everyone fall back!" I commanded, my Alpha voice carrying across both packs. Even Thorne's elite guard obeyed, their earlier aggression forgotten in the face of this greater threat.

A flash of movement caught my eye. Luna stood at the edge of the distort