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Chapter 3: Springy floors and reluctant scouts
Meanwhile, on the other side of the rift, four figures clustered.
"Do you think he's ok?" A stunningly beautiful female dressed in protective leathers
asked.
"That was a dirty trick to play Orpheus." A white-cowled and robed stranger muttered. The voice was male.
"Well, needs must." A black-cowled and robed one (evidently called Orpheus) retorted. His voice was also male.
The shortest one among them looked thoughtful. "Needs must when an inter-dimensional rift opens up where your bed should be?"
The remaining three sweat dropped.
Orpheus turned to the short one. "I blame you for this Sekai. How could test your new device while Hikaru was conducting a new experiment at the same time? You should
have at least asked!"
The one dressed in white sighed. "What happened Vidya?" (This means the white one is Hikaru)
"Well, the forces, mixed together in a compressed space. And caused an unstable reaction as the raw matter and raw antimatter combined, so the resulting energy was amplified by the Magick and found an outlet in another dimension, which caused the rift. While the Tech made it stable, which is what is keeping the rift open."
Orpheus turned to Sekai, "What happened Sekai?"
Sekai grinned. "The Magick and the Tech made a magic door to another world."
Hikaru sighed. "We still shouldn't have made Ami go through though. Well, I say we, I mean Orpheus kicked him through. Literally."
"He'll live. Probably. I propose 2 minutes silence"
At this point Ami stepped through the rift. He opened his mouth to speak but Sekai held up his hand, and then wrote on a card with a marker and held it up.
2 minutes silence, probably best to be quiet.
Ami took the card and wrote on the other side of the card.
Why?
Sekai took it back again.
Because I want to see their faces when they realise that I'm about to push everyone into the rift due to its imminent closure
Amis eyes went wide, "Say what?"
Sekai grinned. "Surprise!" He pressed a button on the wall and the floor tilted them all into the rift.
All the others could say was "?!"
