14 Thorne
“When returning from another universe, be prepared for your origin world to have changed in your absence.” - Beauregard the Great, author of Instructions for Visiting Parallel Worlds
There’s enough chaos with a whole city sinking into the desert, so I don’t need to worry about being subtle here.
Time to get home.
Summoning my sentient, I create a drift void back to my own reality. One second, I’m in the red desert of my family’s past. The next moment, I step into an old-fashioned school house that’s empty except for two people.
Slate and Justice.
And they do not look happy.
Justice saunters up the central aisle. His face is tight with a familiar combination of concern and anger. “You went into the viz dome solo. Have you lost your mind?”
One of Justice’s main purposes in
