SWNOVELXO Chapter 4: Chapter 4: The Thread That Was Cut (Part 1)
(The Moment of Interference — Saving Her Mother)
The evening it happened, the sky over Ottery St. Catchpole was draped in a bruised hue — purple bleeding into deep velvet, stars flickering like uncertain thoughts. Luna, barely four, lay trembling on her bed, sweat matting her silver-blonde hair to her face. The dreams had turned violent again.
But this time, it wasn't just a dream.
A rift opened in her perception — like something snapping free of time. She could see two paths laid out like the branches of a broken tree. One where her mother died — as she should have. And one where Luna could reach across fate, slice into the very thread of death, and pull.
In the physical world, the magical experiment Selene was working on exploded. Or it should have.
But Luna moved.
Her magic — wild, instinctive, and desperate — burst free from her small hands, warping space around her. The world twisted like glass in boiling water, the explosion freezing mid-air, collapsing inward instead of out.
The system interface screamed.
Warning! Temporal Interference Detected!Probability Collapse: 79%... 88%... 94%... Stabilizing...System Core: Fragment Absorption Initiated.Error! Soul-Bound Magic is Overloaded!
And then, silence.
Selene stood at the center of the room, unharmed, stunned, her experiment fizzled into a floating ring of molten sparks, held midair like captured starlight.
"Luna?" she whispered.
The child stood by the doorway, eyes glowing faintly blue-white, her aura shimmering with space and time magic leaking from her body like vapor. Her limbs shook violently.
Then — she collapsed.
Selene screamed, catching her daughter just before her head hit the floor. The child's breathing was shallow, her magic wildly out of sync.
Luna's soul had been pulled partially from her body during the incident, a consequence of ripping open a time-space corridor without anchoring.
In her unconsciousness, Luna wandered the dream realm again — but this time, she didn't walk alone.
Shadows of magic looked at her with curiosity, especially one figure whose outline shimmered like a broken mirror — neither wizard nor mutant. Someone watching.
She has interfered. Marked. Chronal code fractured. Soul syncing prematurely. Keep eyes open.
Luna turned to face them, and for the first time, she spoke in her dream voice — calm, clear, and sharp.
"Tell them I chose to live. That's all."
She woke three days later.
Continue....