Dr. Ellison pulls up a folding chair and motions for you to do the same. "What happened, Bob?"
"Yes, Bob, say how you moved between worlds," Alex says. Good thing no one but you can hear them.
Blankenship's sigh is the sound of crinkling paper. What air did he spend the last months breathing? "I didn't intend to make history as the first known practitioner to move between worlds. You know I was researching ways to reduce summoning backlash, Dr. .?"
"Gabriel mentioned it," you say.
"How is he?"
"Do not answer that!" Alex shrieks. "Make him explain how he traveled! Only the Vastness physically moves between universes!"
As if he can hear Alex, Blankenship shakes his head. "Never mind. We'll speak of him later. It was my misfortune that, in testing a new approach to summoning, I latched onto an immovable object. It was double my misfortune that the barrier between universes had grown thin."
Oh, no, the very thing you discovered and told no one about.