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I take my time explaining. We have time, after all. We have until 3:00 am. So, while the other officers busy themselves clearing the square, I tell Langley and Tad what I know. The column of air appears to be a tear in our side of reality. Should a living soul encounter it, that soul will experience an urge to move between dimensions.
“The urge is strongest during the moon’s three power stages. During those times, even the strongest souls who want to live the most”—I cut my eyes at Langley—“will start looking for ingenious ways to...well, you know. This column thing is what’s doing it. If you pass through, you essentially enter death and exit again, but your life energy wants to return to the Limen. If only part of you enters the column, then that part of you pulls t
