Severance Geometry

When the heir clause is severed, the engine beneath Briar Hollow does not die - it decentralizes.

After tearing a dimensional tether from the limestone shelf under their Texas town, Rowan and Maeve believe they've stopped the overlap. Instead, the fracture spreads beyond contracts, beyond bloodlines, beyond the museum that first contained it. The portal engine cracks, and gravity implodes inward for a single catastrophic second - enough to scar the sky, enough to wound the earth, enough to a...