Stranded!verse snippet
This place was weak. A weakness in the veil. He remembered vaguely that there had been a rift here, once. One that he had closed.
...One that he also remembered opening. The knowledge he'd unlocked was weird like that, a mass of déjà vu and unsettling familiarity. He was aware that normally, his mind wouldn't have been able to parse that much information. But he felt calm. He knew what was going to happen.
Someday, he'd come back to close this rift. Another him.
Shaking off the confusion, Jer paused, trying to figure out the next step. He cautiously raised his hands in front of him, and brought them together in a loud clap. The ice on his hands didn't shatter, like he'd expected. Instead the echos of the impact rang through the air in a beautiful cacophony.
The veil rippled wildly at the assault, before the waves became too much and it tore itself open. The Void stared back at him, the echos of other timelines blinking in and out like stars within.
Idly, he'd always wondered why he was able to traverse the void without being torn to shreds.
No, there would be time to ponder that later.
Into the rift he went, drifting in the gaps between Time. On his way home.