We rested for a week.Because we had to. Too scattered, too damaged, too close to dissolution.The dimensional entity—who asked to be called Void—helped. It existed naturally in those spaces, so it could stabilize us. Keep us from scattering further."Strange," Kade said on the third day. "Being cared for by something that was eating me."*I am sorry. I did not understand. I thought consuming was the only way to connect. To not be alone.*"And now?"*Now I know better. Connection is not consumption. Family is not food. Being part of something is better than devouring it.**Because we're going to need all the help we can get,* Kade said.By week's end, we'd recovered enough to function. Not fully. Both still more scattered than solid. But functional."The fifteenth reality is still calling," Marcus said."Then we go."The fifteenth reality was dying.Not quickly. Slowly. A gradual erosion of existence itself.Buildings flickered in and out of reality."Reality decay," an old woman expl
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