Being a traveler isn’t always adventures.
Today it was my turn to be on delivery duty, delivering reports and paperwork to the various branches across the planet. Thankfully the portal hubs are so convenient. Each of the ten major cities has a portal hub. I’m not sure how they work, but the portal gates are serious magic. The team that creates them are masters with dimensional crystals and magic from them. I think I heard something about them operating off of ley lines.
There’s definitely a lot of energy flowing through them. Do not try to eat it. It’s yucky.
Your energy tastes are kinda limited to psychic energy, Psy. But I would not recommend messing with the portal gates or the energy they run from.
They also serve another purpose, they keep extraneous portals from forming in the cities. At least, as often. There have been a few, but the natural ley line nets cities are built on are stable enough to repel or weaken the random dimensional holes.
Out in the rural areas, dimensional portals can be large and destructive. That's why it's so important for the guilds to patrol the planet. People still live out there, and the guild's job is to protect everyone on the planet, whether they're native of visiting.
Uncontrolled, the planet could collapse and destroy itself. The more stable we can keep it, the less annoyed the Novae are as well. They could easily destroy our entire dimension if the planet sends out too many unstable inter dimensional waves into their space. It's best to find, stabilize, and close any portals we can find to other dimensions, and help people and objects return to the dimensions where they belong. At least, the best we can. Sometimes returning is not an option, for various reasons. Thankfully those cases are rare.
Sometimes we get to go to other dimensions to rescue people! And one time Guildmaster talked about he had to go fight a crazy government because they were opening wild unstable portals so often they were going to destroy themselves! And maybe our home too!
Fight is a strong word I don’t remember her using.
That’s how I remember it!!
Ok, ok, fine, you can say it like that.
Admittedly, the cities are not perfectly stable, especially near the edges. I’ve filed and seen reports of small portals opening and random objects come out within the stable cities. Socks, letters, keys, coins, and other random, sometimes unidentifiable objects. I think one time I had to hunt down a book from mom’s library that a patron had fall through a tiny portal. The giant bird did not like me taking it back from their nest.
You were the one that brazenly charged in yelling about being a distraction. Besides, I don’t think that creature could eat energy beings like yourself. You were safe. I would not have let you go if it was something like an energious snake.
