Haunted by a past he cannot change, Captain Kael Veyra leads his crew deep into the fractured Voidstream in search of the shard known as The Rift's Lament. This ancient fragment holds echoes of the Nexus Galaxy's lost history, promising answers-but at a cost. As Kael confronts visions of his sister trapped in an endless temporal loop, the line between his mission and personal redemption begins to blur. Battling temporal distortions, hostile anomalies, and his own inner demons, Kael must wrestle with a harrowing question: Can the timeline be saved, or will his pursuit of the shards unravel the very fabric of reality? In this gripping chapter of Fractured Realms, Kael's resolve is tested as the shard reveals a chilling truth: restoring time may demand sacrifices far greater than he ever imagined.

She always knew she was the bolder of the two. Sitting inches apart, she leaned in for a kiss. She could fleetingly see his eyes snap shut before she closed hers. And then he blurted out the three words, 'I am gay!' 'The wedding is in two days, and you are telling me this NOW??'