"She's coming back!" Melusine's voice cut through the chaos of the Birth Chamber. "I can feel her essence returning!"
Kai and Marcus, who had been hovering anxiously over Samantha's still form, looked up with desperate hope. The child—their child—lay cradled in Fatima's arms nearby, impossibly calm despite the supernatural battle raging around them.
For the Void Hunters had not given up. Though unable to fully penetrate the chamber, they had found small weaknesses, sending probing tendrils through that the defenders fought to repel.
Aspen and Esteban worked in tandem, the former's staff crackling with energy while the latter used his understanding of pathways to predict and block incursions. Imhotep's protective symbols flared continuously, while Leonardo and Émilie fought to maintain the integrity of their framework, which now showed signs of stress fractures from the immense energies coursing through it.
