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 | hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny Everywhere]]
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-| featuring= [[Laura Drake#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Laura Drake]]<br>[[Michael Moorcock|Moorcock]], [[Alan Moore|Moore]] & [[Grant Morrison|Morrison]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Emily Dickinson]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Virgil]] <small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Librarian (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Unnamed librarian]]<br>[[Glendalf]]<br>[[Mumblecore]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jegrekk Gnashtooth]]<br>[[Draco Malfoy|“A certain wizarding bad-boy”]]<br><small>(mentioned; implied)</small><br>[[Billionaire (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Unnamed billionaire]]<br>[[Absoldar]]<br>[[J. Barrington Boartusk]]<br>[[Agrzaan Lurgpin]]<br>[[God (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Creator of the Orcs]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small>
+| featuring= [[Laura Drake#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Laura Drake]]<br>[[Michael Moorcock|Moorcock]], [[Alan Moore|Moore]] & [[Grant Morrison|Morrison]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Emily Dickinson]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Virgil]] <small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Librarian (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Unnamed librarian]]<br>[[Glendalf]]<br>[[Mumblecore]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jegrekk Gnashtooth]]<br>[[Draco Malfoy|“A certain wizarding bad-boy”]]<br><small>(mentioned; implied)</small><br>[[Billionaire (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Unnamed billionaire]]<br>[[Absoldar]]<br>[[J. Barrington Boartusk]]<br>[[Agrzaan Lurgpin]]<br>[[God (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Creator of the Orcs]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Amelia Midnight]]<br>[[Jenny Anywhere|Penny Anywhere]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Princess Katerina Corwin]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Princess Katerina's mother|Katerina's mother]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small>
 | setting= [[Collapsed Cosmos]]
 | length= 2 Acts
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 =====Part III=====
 Reading through the poems, [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] tries to find prophetic meaning in the words she happened upon. They help her realise that a shrewlike creature she's been watching is actually a very early mammal ancestor to ''[[Homo Sapiens]]'', and that she is in the distant past of the Earth. She decides to put herself in a trance to “fast forward” to the rise of humanity.
+=====Part IV=====
+After finding a suitable cave, [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] puts herself in the trance and remains vaguely aware as the world speeds up around her; she watches as local communities rise and fall, coming to worship the strange, ageless woman in the cave as some kind of deity. Time continues passing, with Jenny unable to come out of her trance — until she sees the sun expanding to engulf the [[Earth]] and the stars dying one by one. Once she is surrounded by perfect void, she knows she has reached the [[End of Time]], and is confronted by none other than [[Amelia Midnight|her mother]].
+=====Part V=====
+Jenny's mother is revealed  [[Amelia Midnight]], formerly an adventurer in her own right (existing as one of Jenny's parents in a number of realities across the [[Multiverse]]); the amalgamation of all her story-paths, this Amelia “retired” from transtemporal adventuring to become an [[Archon of the Redoubt]] after passing on her [[Jenny Everywhere's scarf|scarf]] and [[Jenny Everywhere's goggles|goggles]] to her [[Jenny Everywhere|daughter]].
 ===Worldbuilding===
 ====Jenny Everywhere====
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 ** Several unidentified Jennies who were wizards.
 * It is noted that Jenny often has a talent for seeing both sides of an issue.
+* In a number of realities, Jenny Everywhere had two mothers: [[Amelia Midnight|Captain Amelia Midnight]], an adventuress in her own right (captaining the [[hypership]] ''[[Zephyrus]]''), and the [[Princess Katerina Corwin]], with “Corwin” being a last name used by many incarnations of Jenny. She was raised on the hidden interdimensional [[Island of Barbelo]], thus keeping her safe from her mothers' many enemies. Eventually, each Jenny would in turn leave their version of Barbelo, sometimes drawn away by [[Laura Drake]] or her fellow shifter [[Jenny Anywhere|Penny Anywhere]], sometimes as its only survivor after its destruction.
 ====Laura Drake====
 * In the [[Collapsed Cosmos]], [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] and [[Laura Drake#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Laura]] are friends. They appear to live together in a single apartment, with Jenny being at least willing to take their relationship further. Later, inside Jenny's adventure with Glendalf, which may reflect a nested fictional reality, Laura resurfaces in a more villainous incarnation, appearing as “a woman in a sort of deep blue Napoleonic military uniform with a white cape, holding [[Laura Drake's sword|a sword]] at her side”.
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 * “Keeping a lot of books in one place [is dangerous in unstable reality conditions”. Because of this, the library Jenny visits is somewhat larger on the inside than it looks from the outside; each room is bounded by“ a carefully maintained magic circle painted in scarlet” to mitigate the effect.
 * The [[I Ching]], [[the Bible]] or the poems of [[Virgil]] are popular choices when attempting to foretell the future using a book, but Jenny prefers using the collected poetry of [[Emily Dickinson]].
-* Various shared adventures between [[Glendalf]] and [[Jenny Everywhere]] in “the good old days” include “battling [[Lord Grallyx]] on the astral plane”, “besieging the [[Tower of Zirma]] with [[Octobriana]]”, and “getting high with [[the Magician of Mars]] in [[Washington]] to levitate the [[Pentagon]]”. He also once helped her deal with recurring memories of “shifting through the [[overvoid]]”.
+* Various shared adventures between [[Glendalf]] and [[Jenny Everywhere]] in “the good old days” include “battling [[Lord Grallyx]] on the astral plane”, “besieging the [[Tower of Zirma]] with [[Octobriana]]”, and “getting high with [[the Magician of Mars]] in [[Washington]] to levitate the [[Pentagon]]”. He also once helped her deal with recurring memories of “shifting through the [[Overvoid]]”, which is also where, in some universes, infant versions of Jenny were found and adopted by various versions of [[Amelia Midnight]].
 * [[Absoldar]] “used to be a hitman in the [[Orc mafia]]”.
+* [[Amelia Midnight]] is “famous all over the [[hypercontinuum]]”.
 ===Continuity===
 * [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] has memories of leaving a literature exam to partake in an adventure involving [[Cardinal Dracula|Dracula]] and [[the Three Musketeers]], something which occurred in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Preludes and Distractions (short story)|Preludes and Distractions]]'', as well as of engaging in a summoning ritual, a potential allusion to [[PROSE]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell (short story)|Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell]]''.