“Is this real?”
“Oh, you newbies always ask the
most intriguing questions,” He said. It was obvious that he was trying to hide
his amusement and failing terribly. “It depends on your definition of real.”
Kevin eyed the swirling sphere
in front of him. It was unlike anything he had ever seen. It looked like a
giant glass sphere, but didn’t seem to accurately show what was behind it. Instead
of a modest Northwest American town, it was a forest. Not just any forest, the
trees actually appeared to be shrinking.
“What is going on? What is
this?” Kevin asked incredulously.
“Really, you’ve seen me walk through
walls and stop time and you’re fascinated by this ol’ thing?” He asked charmingly.
“I guess I should explain since this will be your greatest, and probably only
tool for the next decade or so.”
“Decade?” Kevin blurted out. “What
about high school? What about my life? What about-“
“Where is your high school?” He
countered. “Where is your city for that matter? Where is your life? Until we
figure out what is going on you have to be a Viewer. We need to focus on this,
and then focus on getting your life back, understood?”
Kevin nodded. His
eyes were still fixated on the flawless orb floating in front of him. Every
swirl seemed to jump to a different place in the planet. Was this some sort of teleporter?
“So, back to your original,
well one of your original questions,” He started. “This ball of infinite wonder
is called the ball of infinite wonder. Really? No, I was kidding. I do that a
lot. This ball is called a Fildenstein-Ikakus Spherical Loop. That’s its proper
name. It won’t be invented for another 10,000 years or so. I call mine Frank.”
He looked at Kevin and must
have noticed his bewildered expression because he coughed and started to talk
again like nothing was out of the ordinary.
“Anyway, this is every Viewers
most important tool. It’s how you bend the rules of the universe. You asked if
this was real. I say it depends on your definition of reality. This orb
effectively combines the real plane and the imaginary plane in to two
overlapping solutions, two superimposed realities.”
“Now you’ve really lost me,”
Kevin said.
“Ok, I guess you don’t really
need to know how it works, just that it does work. Tell me Kevin, are you
looking to be an engineer when you grow up?”
“Well, actually-“
“Ignore that question. It was
rhetorical. Now, when you enter your FISL (pronounced Fizzle ‘cause it just
sounds cooler), you become instantly available in two locations. One location
is where you were at the moment you entered the FISL, and the other location is
the time and place of your ‘jump.’ Jumps are limited by Viewer, not by FISL.
So, this way to can view the entirety of the universe. We have rules, obviously,
but-”
“What the heck is going on!”
Kevin yelled. “Where is
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