I’ve always wondered why stories-about-human-kids-accidentally-entering-fantasy-worlds never touched on the fantasy world thinking, “holy shit, all of our cosmology and physics are shattered”, so I wanted to correct that. This has very little editing, but I’m willing to clean it up and keep going if this is well-received.
Three suns rose over the snarled city of Vud, bringing the piss-stains into sharp relief. Tabloid-sellers arranged their libelous wares in the early smog. University students filed into their early-morning lectures, chewing stimulant-herbs and reviewing their notes for Summoned-Entity Ethics.
As people went about their business, laughing and procrastinating and smoking and swearing, a crack was forming many thousands of cubits in the sky. Nobody took note of it. An exhausted apprentice of the Royal Astronomer spotted it, but filed it away as a post-coffee-and-breakfast sort of task.
The crack spread, spanning the width of the sky, piercing through the thin cloud cover. Few things can jostle citizens of Vud, but this broke people away from their routines of avoiding eye contact and drew the city’s undivided attention.
Some type of creature fell from it, gradually slowing before floating down to the city plaza. A crush of people ran to gawk at this bizarre intruder- it looked vaguely like a normal citizen, it had a bipedal frame and all that, but it had entirely the wrong proportions and number of sensory organs.
At the front of the crowd, Professor Tuhon of the Royal Academy was cycling through a number of reactions, and had come to two conclusions:
Every hypothesis about the nature of our universe is now worthless.
I can spin at least two dozen dissertations out of this.
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