“It is really fucking cool,” Strange concedes, with a ghost of humour in his voice as he echoes her. Ellie and America would get along, probably. “They’re glowing blue star-shaped portals, even. Quite the sight. Although that’s remarkable, that you’ve been through all this before. I haven’t even experienced a vacation home on the moon, for shame.”
And then, unhelpfully, because his bedside manner was always terrible and he’d never really mastered the art of sounding soothing—
“Well, there was this other time. Where it was, mm, on accident.” Now the man sounds oddly sheepish, fidgety. “A spell went awry and it started pulling in visitors from other worlds. Seemingly very much like the rift situation here, and it was at risk of destabilising our entire reality until we sent the visitors back. I barely contained it. Now I find myself being one of those interlopers. But it sounds like these ‘rifters’ are fairly commonplace here? It’s been happening for a while and the world hasn’t fallen apart?”
There’s that unspoken yet clearly dangling yet? at the end of his sentence. It’s a reasonable concern, having seen what he has.
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And then, unhelpfully, because his bedside manner was always terrible and he’d never really mastered the art of sounding soothing—
“Well, there was this other time. Where it was, mm, on accident.” Now the man sounds oddly sheepish, fidgety. “A spell went awry and it started pulling in visitors from other worlds. Seemingly very much like the rift situation here, and it was at risk of destabilising our entire reality until we sent the visitors back. I barely contained it. Now I find myself being one of those interlopers. But it sounds like these ‘rifters’ are fairly commonplace here? It’s been happening for a while and the world hasn’t fallen apart?”
There’s that unspoken yet clearly dangling yet? at the end of his sentence. It’s a reasonable concern, having seen what he has.