“I’m not telling my parents about the condition,” he said. “I told them about the wormhole mapping because I needed to give them a reason why the antagonists would want me dead, but the Portal Acid is a secret. I’ve already put them through enough. And if I cut down on my dimensional excursions, it could be decades before it spreads.”
“Cut down?” I repeated. “Mark, it sounds like you should not be going to other dimensions at all.”
Mark looked away from me for a moment. “What I’ve done is important work, SJ. Mapping and trying to understand other dimensions—no one else has this kind of expertise. That’s why the antagonists came after me. I started mapping wormholes for my own interest, but now this goes beyond that. My prophecy from the Author appeared last summer and it made it clear th
