Space is not, hasn't ever been, anything like smooth or even or unified. Mass distorts it. Force distorts it. The laws that govern it fall apart at the farthest edges and look very different at the center. It's not a fabric and it's not a ball, it's a mass of sponge and jelly, all knots and gaps and twisted places that scarcely ever get noticed.
And that's Earth's universe. This is the Combine Overworld. The laws are different here. Broader. Looser. More suspect to being leaned on and torn apart. It's how they found their way to a million other universes to begin with: their own was such a magnificent mess as far as governing laws go that it was easy to figure out how to leave it. Mass distorts space. Force distorts time. Power distorts perception. Things that ought to follow one upon the other--
This is not, has not ever been, linear. That is not the nature of this place.
This universe is the center which does not hold, and all the things the humans and the trolls alike perceive-
Well. Who knows what order they ought to be in. That doesn't make a difference here.
Because the things that are here and that are now are not Advisors, but Adepts, and power... distorts.
It will be an amazing thing indeed if anyone here sees their way out of what the Adepts have just begun to visit upon them.
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Date: 2012-10-24 02:25 am (UTC)And that's Earth's universe. This is the Combine Overworld. The laws are different here. Broader. Looser. More suspect to being leaned on and torn apart. It's how they found their way to a million other universes to begin with: their own was such a magnificent mess as far as governing laws go that it was easy to figure out how to leave it. Mass distorts space. Force distorts time. Power distorts perception. Things that ought to follow one upon the other--
This is not, has not ever been, linear. That is not the nature of this place.
This universe is the center which does not hold, and all the things the humans and the trolls alike perceive-
Well. Who knows what order they ought to be in. That doesn't make a difference here.
Because the things that are here and that are now are not Advisors, but Adepts, and power... distorts.
It will be an amazing thing indeed if anyone here sees their way out of what the Adepts have just begun to visit upon them.