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Jack watched the SlipGate power up, watched the sinuous grooves that ran from the base of that metal triangle all the way to its pointed tip light up with a fierce white glow. There was a soft, whirring sound, and then a bubble appeared, expanding from a single point to something large enough to hold a dozen people.
Inside, a blurry figure stood with her head down. The light that passed through the surface of the bubble was refracted, making it difficult to determine who was inside, and Jack couldn't rely on spatial awareness either. His Keeper senses detected nothing but a big spherical gap in the fabric of reality.
The bubble was a pocket of folded space-time that had been translated from one point to another through SlipSpace. Matter could not pass through the barrier; that was wh
