Four hundred years after Luna's birth, a bridge child named Horizon was born with an ability that defied everything bridge children understood about their nature. She could perceive not just the three realms within their cosmos, but the spaces between cosmos, the vast emptiness where entities like Confluence traveled.
Nexus identified Horizon's uniqueness when she was only three months old. "Her bridge perception extends beyond our reality entirely. She's seeing what Confluence sees. Dimensions we can't perceive, cosmos adjacent to ours, the structure that contains all realities."
"That's impossible," Meridian said. She was ninety-three now, still leading despite her age, still sharp despite the centuries weighing on her. "Bridge children connect realms within a cosmos. We don't bridge b
