"Welcome home, time-weavers,You've done exactly as was foretold. The festival of stories you created in the past – it changed everything. The tales you shared awakened something that had been sleeping beneath the surface of reality. Something ancient. Something hungry."

Horror dawned on Johnny as he remembered the stories they had shared, the way the shadows had seemed to dance around their audiences. They hadn't just been telling stories; they had been performing an ritual without knowing it.

The time machine suddenly hummed to life, its surface growing warm. Symbols began to flow across its surface, and Johnny realized they were the same patterns he had seen in the ancient cave drawings during their journey.

Ella said : "Hiroshi knew" 

Clara said : "He must have known this would happen. The machine isn't just for traveling through time – it's a key."