“I think if you go north right now, you complete the alignment.”
Silence.
He’s right.
If I go—
The baby responds.
The convergence accelerates.
Lilith isn’t escalating.
She’s luring.
The realization shifts everything.
“She doesn’t want me to attack,” I whisper.
“She wants you to follow,” Morgan says.
“Yes.”
“She’s drawing the axis north.”
“And if I resist?”
“The pulse grows stronger.”
I feel it now.
Faint.
A whisper beneath the skin.
North.
Asher runs into the chamber mid-discussion.
“Mama!”
He stops abruptly when he sees the tension.
“What’s wrong?”
I kneel.
“Do you feel anything strange?”
He frowns.
“Like… a tug.”
My blood chills.
“Where?”
He points vaguely forward.
“That way.”
North.
Kade’s expression hardens.
“She’s reaching through both children.”
Morg
