LILY POV
The voice came from everywhere and nowhere at once.
"Guardian! Please, you must help us!"
I spun around in the basement where I'd been desperately trying to hold the dimensional tears closed. My hands still glowed with Guardian power, streams of silver light running from my fingers to patch the cracks in reality. But now something else was happening.
A shimmering figure appeared in front of me—a woman who looked almost human except for her blue-tinted skin and eyes that held swirling galaxies.
"Who are you?" I gasped, not daring to release my hold on the dimensional walls. If I stopped focusing for even a second, everything would collapse.
"I am Zara from Reality Seventeen," the woman said quickly. "Our world is dying because the walls are failing there too. We felt your Guardian power across dimensions and came seeking help."
