[i/]I wake, floating in an expanse of nothing. The vortex has spat me out into this nether-realm, this void of black and emptiness. Dead dreams drift by, lost ideas and hopes. Enormous clumps of Lost Things can be half-glimpsed through the gloom. Far behind, above, below is the vortex, that shimmering, twisting tunnel betwixt dimensions and fractal worlds. If I half-close my eyes and relax my mind, I can just make out the shifting, serpentine, labyrinthine network of doors and tunnels and hallways stretching off into eternity, entrances to other places beyond my ken. It is silent and unbearably loud all at once, pitch black and blazingly bright. I realise I am falling. Far, far below, light years away and yet impossibly close, a Door snaps open and shut. I close my eyes.[/i]
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