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The resonance that filled the room was not beautiful. It was raw. It was the sound of a bandage being ripped off. And it was exactly what Rook needed.

And in the distance, barely visible, a ninth figure sat in a garden of black flowers, tending to roots that grew into forgotten songs. Melaina looked up, saw them, and waved. muses8 comics

The doors of the conservatory exploded inward. She walked through the splinters like they were confetti. Tall, androgynous, dressed in thrift-store velvet and combat boots. Her hair was shaved on one side, long on the other, dyed the color of a bruised plum. She carried no instrument, no画笔, no notebook. Just a single black marble that she rolled between her fingers. The resonance that filled the room was not beautiful

The Muses8—all eight of them—escaped into the white space between realities. They landed in a field that smelled like rain and old paper. The sky was a sketch, half-inked, waiting for color. And it was exactly what Rook needed

"Melaina. And she's waking up." Rook finally looked at Clara. For a moment, her eyes were not human—they were negatives, light where pupils should be. "Every time you create something beautiful, you destroy something else. A tree for paper. A silence for a note. A possibility for a choice. Melaina is the sum of all those tiny destructions. And she's hungry."

"No." Rook crushed the marble. Time hiccuped. For one heartbeat, every student saw a version of themselves that had died young—Vincent with a bandaged ear, Clara in an asylum, Wolfgang feverish and bankrupt. "The Fracture is a wound. I'm just the knife that made it." That night, Clara couldn't sleep. She found Rook on the roof, staring at a sky that seemed slightly too close.

Clara stood. "What's your domain?"