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As they shift, however, a mysterious force suddenly interferes, snatching them away from the Infinite and to a mysterious inky-black location where they find themselves spinning at high speed, Sophie soon torn away from her parents despite their best efforts to cling onto her, before falling down into an inky-black body of water below. | As they shift, however, a mysterious force suddenly interferes, snatching them away from the Infinite and to a mysterious inky-black location where they find themselves spinning at high speed, Sophie soon torn away from her parents despite their best efforts to cling onto her, before falling down into an inky-black body of water below. | ||
Jenny comes to some time later, being tended to by Thymon on the gray, sludgy shore of the black sea. Inland is a forest of dead, grey trees. Thymon explains that he has been trying to use his powers to transport themselves away without success, and Jenny similarly reports that her powers aren't working. She and Thymon set off into the forest to find Sophie, a highly depressing trek, although they soon manage to give themselves courage by humming some of Pristine's songs from the concert together. Eventually, they reach the first variation in the landscape: a signpost reading “DROP IN ANYTIME”, next to a deep black pit, “about as wide as Jenny [is] told”. Inside, they find none other than [[Jimmy Anytime|Jimmy Anytime]], yet another time-[[shift]]er and a friend of Jenny's, who explains that he too was snagged mid-shift and ended up in the black ocean before swimming to shore and exploring the forest. As he explored, the pit simply opened up beneath his feet, and he's been in there ever since. Worryingly, he also felt the presence of the villainess who cloned him from [[Jimmy Wherever (38167th Universe)|Jimmy Wherever]] in the first place, and whom he mistakenly believed to be dead: Jenny's sister, [[Jenny Nowhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny Nowhere]]. | Jenny comes to some time later, being tended to by Thymon on the gray, sludgy shore of the black sea. Inland is a forest of dead, grey trees. Thymon explains that he has been trying to use his powers to transport themselves away without success, and Jenny similarly reports that her powers aren't working. She and Thymon set off into the forest to find Sophie, a highly depressing trek, although they soon manage to give themselves courage by humming some of Pristine's songs from the concert together. Eventually, they reach the first variation in the landscape: a signpost reading “DROP IN ANYTIME”, next to a deep black pit, “about as wide as Jenny [is] told”. Inside, they find none other than [[Jimmy Anytime (38167th Universe)|Jimmy Anytime]], yet another time-[[shift]]er and a friend of Jenny's, who explains that he too was snagged mid-shift and ended up in the black ocean before swimming to shore and exploring the forest. As he explored, the pit simply opened up beneath his feet, and he's been in there ever since. Worryingly, he also felt the presence of the villainess who cloned him from [[Jimmy Wherever (38167th Universe)|Jimmy Wherever]] in the first place, and whom he mistakenly believed to be dead: Jenny's sister, [[Jenny Nowhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny Nowhere]]. | ||
Indeed, Nowhere is currently in her throne room, irritated by Sophie, whom she's keeping in a literal cage hanging from the ceiling, and who uses her eldritch voice to play trivial pranks on her to show her disapproval of her current situation. However, her mood wickedly improves again as she charts Thymon, Jenny and Jimmy's course on one of the maps on her desk, noting that they'll soon be landing in “hot waters”. Indeed, the trio are still making their way through the wood, Jimmy's bad but heartening knock-knock jokes having replaced the singing as their means of keeping sane. However, they do eventually start to get thirsty. When Jenny bitterly snaps her fingers in mimicry of her ''normal'' solution to such a problem, which she does not expect to work here, a small pool of hot water begins to form at her feet. Although thoroughly confused, she repeats the action enough times that the three travellers soon find themselves standing next to a huge, boiling lake. Thymon uses his powers over time and, therefore, entropy to cool down the boiling water enough to hand glasses made of ice, and full of cold but liquid water, to the humans. | Indeed, Nowhere is currently in her throne room, irritated by Sophie, whom she's keeping in a literal cage hanging from the ceiling, and who uses her eldritch voice to play trivial pranks on her to show her disapproval of her current situation. However, her mood wickedly improves again as she charts Thymon, Jenny and Jimmy's course on one of the maps on her desk, noting that they'll soon be landing in “hot waters”. Indeed, the trio are still making their way through the wood, Jimmy's bad but heartening knock-knock jokes having replaced the singing as their means of keeping sane. However, they do eventually start to get thirsty. When Jenny bitterly snaps her fingers in mimicry of her ''normal'' solution to such a problem, which she does not expect to work here, a small pool of hot water begins to form at her feet. Although thoroughly confused, she repeats the action enough times that the three travellers soon find themselves standing next to a huge, boiling lake. Thymon uses his powers over time and, therefore, entropy to cool down the boiling water enough to hand glasses made of ice, and full of cold but liquid water, to the humans. | ||
