[And it's better if the people he left behind do move on without him... but he has a strong impression that anyone who was in the corridors in the month before he was pulled through the Ingress went through something similar to his own ordeal, which may mean that a few of them are irreparably stressed, which may impact their chances of long-term survival. Even here, it's taken him weeks to gain back the weight and most of his strength, which he could barely afford to lose to begin with.
It's the mark of a shift in him, he knows, that he still wonders and cares.]
I think it's extremely likely that the Ingress isn't the only object in any universe that can do the things it does, and it may not have any bearing on what happens to us once we're here. Do we have any evidence that it's more than a gate that attracts things from various universes? If not, it isn't as if we've been glued to this one.
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[And it's better if the people he left behind do move on without him... but he has a strong impression that anyone who was in the corridors in the month before he was pulled through the Ingress went through something similar to his own ordeal, which may mean that a few of them are irreparably stressed, which may impact their chances of long-term survival. Even here, it's taken him weeks to gain back the weight and most of his strength, which he could barely afford to lose to begin with.
It's the mark of a shift in him, he knows, that he still wonders and cares.]
I think it's extremely likely that the Ingress isn't the only object in any universe that can do the things it does, and it may not have any bearing on what happens to us once we're here. Do we have any evidence that it's more than a gate that attracts things from various universes? If not, it isn't as if we've been glued to this one.