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Eva
Sanctum, Axis Mundi, the True line, 1997
The quantum strings bent to her will. She gave them no choice. Each
countless strand in her body, each in the tree, sang an octave higher at
her command. The thick, diamond-patterned bark of the ancient ash
transformed under her touch, and she glanced one last time over her
shoulder. “Ready?”
“No… wait,” Tophe said, rummaging in their shared knapsack.
“I didn’t forget anything.”
“I just want to double-check,” he said.
Impatient to proceed, she huffed and held the portal open. “Extra water?”
she asked.
“Yes.” He gripped the bag at arm’s length, peering into its open mouth,
and his dark hair fell forward. “What are we missing?”
She scanned his Mexican officer’s uniform and thought through the items
she had packed. “Nothing,” she said. “It’s not like we’re going to be there a
week. We’ve done this exact mission a million times in a million Goliad
copies.”
Tophe nodded and retied the pack. “You’re right. Let’s go.”
With a parting glance, her gaze skipped up the hill to the sanctum of the
True line, a safe haven for all those she loved, the only free and conscious
beings in the multiverse.
“Come on. Now who’s dawdling?” he asked and bent to kiss her cheek.
“Last one, then better things.” His sight turned inward, and he widened the
doorway beside her.
She focused on the vibrating energy found within all quantum particles.
There was nothing magic about their abilities. As a sixth sense, real humans
could move freely through space and time simply by changing reality at the
quantum level. After taking a deep breath, she spliced each wiggling
snippet into a loop, changing the pitch of the cosmic choir. Free now to
move, she sensed the inseverable tether of her lifeline, a thread woven
across dimensions, anchoring her to the one true reality, Axis Mundi, the
navel of the universe, and strong enough to bring her home.
Since the mistake of creation, Axis Mundi, the True line, had shone as a
holy light through the shattered pieces of a broken mirror. Briefly, gratitude
flooded her chest to be one of the chosen, for only her people, the Lux
Libera, could move between worlds.
A soft haziness enveloped them both, and the evergreen wavered, unsure
of its place in space-time. She gathered her existence up like skirts from the
mud, keeping herself separate from the tree and Tophe.
Fully between dimensions, she sought the beacon set by her people’s
scouts on previous missions to guide them. The worlds floated around her, a
near-infinite shimmering sea. Without difficulty, she located the signal, but
as she drew closer, the target split into two diverging lights. Her thoughts
flew to Tophe. Uncertain where he would go, she knew she must choose
before her strength wore out.
As she exited the portal, a dark world greeted her, and her stomach
dropped. She should be standing in a sheltered grove outside the
embankments of a military camp with the rising sun streaming into her
eyes. Ocean waves should be crashing beyond the dunes. Instead, the inky
blackness reminded her of the Abyss, and horror clutched the back of her
neck. Sound stretched, telling her of trees and an expanse filled with the
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