Chapter 5: Ripples
Kelly stared hard. In front of her, the terrain blurred, becoming a mass of indistinct colours. A neat line separated it from the focused world. It was even more fake than the rest; everything was impossibly 2D.
It was the border, the edge between the Sim world and no-man's land.
She bent down and gingerly touched the ground in front of her. Her hand rested on the surface for a moment, before slipping through the blurry grass, as if it was just water. Kelly stood up again, drawing her hand out of the ground.
No one had ever ventured further than where she was standing, and not by choice either. Beyond, there was just a cover, like weeds that choke a pond.
If you stepped on the "cover", it'd give way. And nobody had bothered to pursue the matter; there was no point. Stepping through meant falling into what was most likely a bottomless pit of their code.
Kelly wouldn't go there, not under any sort of normality. But rumour had it, all their realms lurked in the code, and that of course included the Bin. If she could reach it, and then get Dean, it would all work out. Kelly emphasized that; whatever happened after was irrelevant.
She screwed up her courage, breathed in deep, and stepped forward. Her foot plunged through the terrain. Kelly dropped like a stone, and unlike in a pond, there wasn't even a ripple to show her passing. It was as she'd never been there, never even existed.