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Entropy became a pleasant electric feeling slipping in through her fingertips and there was no going back.
As destructive as she’s never been in her wildest dreams. And why did she never dare to dream bigger? In the inevitability of this moment she momentarily wondered about that. What was it that was stopping her? With this singular, white-hot sensation running up her nerves she knew – worlds were going to fall before her. Obliterated on her slightest whim. Making every atrocity she had committed before today pale in comparison...
What a rush unlimited power could be, Cassandra thought to herself as a hard-to-look-at euphoric smile etched itself onto her features.
This timeline and the next... and... the... NEXT...
A bit megalomaniacal of her but once the idea occurred there was no banishing it. And the machine was right there, beyond Paradox’s laughable excuse for security. It all fell into place so very neatly.
Predestined, almost. With that impossible electricity seeping into her brain she found herself disinclined to care.
This was the moment.
This was what she was made for. After so long spent content being, for all her horrifying power, merely human, she found herself one step removed from a true goddess. The destroyer of worlds. And what exactly did her oh-so-special-in-every-timeline twin ever do with his life? Played at being a headmaster...?
She laughs, if only inside her own head and the sound is electric, is antimatter, is pure, indiscriminating oblivion.
And her skin tightens and her bones ache and... Is it supposed to hurt? Are her nerves supposed to scream like it’s her dying and not the timeline? She feels herself torn in too many directions to be able to focus on the answer.
It’s there, under her skin, burning still. La petit mord crashing against the real thing inside her aching skull.
Death.
How... funny.
How very the last thing she expected to find in this bland excuse for a timeline.
Death. The thing she was supposed to be for everyone else. So why could she hear every Charles she ever made scream his last in the Void tell her it’s alright. It’s only the end. It was bound to happen someday. And he was waiting for her on the other side.
And what choice did she have but to follow...?