forward-dated to very early on the 14th

[yourattention]

[for those of you who are having trouble reading the font:

top text:
found this on umui w/ lup in a locked drawer
come find me if you wanna see the og ver

bottom text:
found these on a different pg w/ blood

and the rest of it is just a transcript of this.]

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[yourattention]

I know how far they are from us. I don't know how far they are from each other.

[It's hard to tell when he only has one to work from at a time, but he pulls a crumpled planner page from his pocket and takes the pen from his bun to sketch an approximate map for Shion. I have no idea what it looks like, because the mods were Very Vague when I asked about this but it does, in fact, resemble the way the islets are clustered in a circle. Ensō has been marked in the center, more of a quick circle than an actual mapping.]

But they're situated like this, more or less.

[savedbyasong]

[Shion watched him draw with a small frown. A circle with Enso in the middle. But no way to know how far away they were from each other...]

Right. [He's copying it into his own notepad.]

Where do they go though... When they disappear. They can't just sink. Not all of them. Ai'Tuoh can't have sunk...

[yourattention]

It's like - [Connor drums his fingers on the edge of the boat, searching for words to explain.] Do you know what a liminal space is?

[That's the only way he can think of to explain this: a place that's both there and isn't at the same time. A place that's at the edges of two realities at the same time.]

[savedbyasong]

[Shook frowned. It is very rare that he comes across a word that he doesn't know. But this one holds no meaning. He blushes slightly, ashamed at his ignorance.]

No. I don't know what that means.

[An ignorance that is so much worse because this is Ceej. He doesn't like looking stupid in front of Ceej.]

[yourattention]

Okay. So like - obviously there's infinite realities, Schrödinger's cat is both alive and dead yada yada quantum bullshit. Most of the time, those realities are like this [Connor holds his hands together, like he might if he was about to start praying.] but sometimes, in certain places, the barrier separating different realities weakens or disappears entirely? So you get this. [Connor intertwines his fingers together.] Make sense?

[That's not really the full gist of it, but he doesn't actually want to explain quantum mechanics because it's bullshit and he hates it. The important part is two realities being close together.]

[savedbyasong]

[Shion understands infinite realities. He might not have the terminology and he has absolutely no idea what a cat that is both alive and dead has to do with anything but he understands what Connor is saying.] So you think the other islands are like other universes, realities interacting with this one for a period of time before the barrier is strengthened again?

These worlds that pull people from other universes. The barriers must be weaker in general in order for that to be possible...

[He's writing this down. Terminology is good though...] If there are terms to describe all of this. Were other realities something that your world knew about? Did you study this?

[yourattention]

It's not exactly, like, my area of expertise? 'cause I can't pass normal physics, let alone quantum physics where the shit's made up and nothing matters.

[But he reads a lot of science fiction, so he knows the very basics of this sort of thing. He can't really explain the finer points of anything he's just said, though, because after a certain point it all just sounds like nonsense.]

Anyway, you know how the islands are only ever here for a little while? I think the Storyteller is intentionally weakening a barrier, but they obviously can't do it forever.

[savedbyasong]

Yes, too much maths. [He regrets speaking the moment he says it because the only reason he knows Connor hates maths is from his dream. And he tried not to remind Ceej of that.]

Infinite realities aren't made up though. They are real. That's a good theory though... The Story Teller has barrier powers. They can weaken the barriers.

So did the Story Teller help the people get from Umui to Ai'Tuoh? If so why did the people reject them?