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Sam feels the energy thrumming underneath her feet. If she closes her eyes she can feel it flowing through the earth, rising from the ground.
The feeling is only getting stronger.
She spends all the time she can in her greenhouse. It is the dead of winter, but her plants are flourishing. Danny merely looks at her and smiles, saying that Clockwork said that ‘all is as it should be’. They both know that is not actually comforting. But she is not afraid. This energy feels like life, like abundance, like healing. In a world dying from pollution and overpopulation, she feels like the center of a whirlwind of life.
Where she walks the grass is greener and other plants sprout. They are all glad no one else beside their trio has noticed.
She is changing, and she is not the only one.
Tucker is changing too. With a mere touch he can code, can hack, can search. It has made him better at Doomed than her, and she has made her displeasure known. She has thrown many shoes at his laughing face, at Danny’s too when he encourages him. But she can also feel energy from Tucker. Ancient energy full of scorching heat and old magic.
He has taken an interest in runes, she in the old ways of witches.
They are changing, they are growing, they are becoming more liminal.
But Danny is the one changing most of all. Before he was a beacon of energy, now he is as bright as an exploding star. His ghost form is shifting. He no longer looks like his human self, but is many limbed with too many wings and eyes and teeth and claws and horns. His skin is like stars and galaxies and his eyes like black holes. Most people cannot bear to look at him anymore, but not her and Tucker.
It has always been them. Their trio. They witnessed the birth of a connection between realms. They have seen death, and they have seen life and everything in between. They have explored the Other, the Unknown, the Beyond, the Unseen. They have fought horrors and come out victorious. They have made allies of creatures beyond mortal comprehension. They have remained steadfast in the midst of all adversity. But not, it would seem, unchanged.
The world continues to spin around them, they age, but Sam feels that soon they will stop.
They are something Other. Something the world has not seen before. Rarer even than Halfas, for Danny has been much more than just a Halfa for a long time.
But they are still together, her and Danny and Tucker.
Three pillars of energy and life and magic.
Afterall, the strongest shape is a triangle and its symbolism in magic has prevailed throughout the ages.
They are the three pillars upon which the world will stand, for even Time and Fate need Life and Energy and Magic to do their part.
No matter what changes, no matter how much time passes, they will be together.
And they always will be.