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Lyra's POVThe Void entity towered above us, a living darkness that devoured light, matter, and reality itself. Each movement of its impossibly vast form created ripples in space-time, tearing chunks from the merged realities and consuming them into its endless hunger.My dark alternate self stood beside me, our combined power creating a barrier of pure creation against the entropy. But it wasn't enough. Reality was unraveling faster than we could stabilize it."We can't hold it," she growled, cosmic energy crackling around her form. "Every reality it consumes makes it stronger."Through the chaos, I saw Xander organizing evacuation efforts. His primal form had grown to match the cosmic scale of our battle, shepherding beings from countless realities toward the more stable pockets of existence that Luna maintained."This way!" he roared, his Alpha voice carrying across dimensions. "Stay within the stable zones!"A family of crystalline beings stumbled past, their forms flickering betw
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