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In a moment Felix was simply enjoying flying through the many portals of the Shattered Skies. Then a flash of bright light and then he isn't in the Shattered Skies anymore.
Instead he is above a town, no portal in view. He checks his cellphone and... no signal, this is likely a kind of pocket dimension.
Feeling confused and lost, Felix flies down, searching for people or a place where he can use a phone.
Sky thinks flying is great, and doesn't comment on any weirdness.
"Flying is so cool!"
"It is isn't it?" Felix agrees.
Felix will go straight to the portal so he can get Sky to safety, are there any signs of someone or something below?
Felix lands next to the portal near the creepy tree, he opens the portal.
Is Scott around, yet?
Felix lands depositing Sky on the ground.
"Hi, Scott. This is Sky. Can you sense anyone else in the woods?"
"Okay, we should go through the portal then. Figure out what else we can do."
Felix steps through the portal waiting for them to come as well.
Most of the immigrants are settling in comfortably, though they seem nervous and twitchy at fast-moving vehicles and at dogs.
Some of them might need therapy.
Therapy, legal identies, ways to fulfill whatever dreams they have.
How is Sky doing? How about the ones sent to the hospital?
He pulls Scott aside. "Do you think you have any... Influence on these people?"
"They are created by you, sometimes this makes them start existing considering you a friend, sometimes an enemy. I was thinking what we are going to do with them, in no small part because they have their own desires and goals that might not be agreeable with keeping this whole mess a secret."
"I can talk to them. If we have to, we can just let them tell. I'll try to keep them from talking about you too much."
"Thanks," he says deflated. He doesn't look like he is going to cry, and that is the best thing you can say about his apparent state of happiness right now.
"Well, I can't really come with you. Do you think the situation here is stable enough that I can retreat for a couple of hours while you go talk to them? We should talk before you go sleep again."
Felix "rests" for a while, which involves crying, eventually it does involve actual resting and sleeping until Scott returns. Since he is asleep Felix dreamshapes, expanding his dimension in subtle ways, he creates a remote server and puts as much information he can pour into it, the magic and history of both universes, so he can check it later.
Scott talks to the dream-immigrants.
Some of them are doubles of people, and for now, Scott can only provide them living arrangements.
Others are completely new, unique people. Trying to make a place for them in Beacon Hills will be hard. Scott considers trying to make the dream dimension more livable. He'll have to ask Felix for advice on how to 'influence' it, if he even can.
By sunrise, people at least have places to sleep.
Felix forces himself awake and goes to search Scott by then. He looks disheveled, his hair a mess and his clothes the same he slept in.
"Hey. How are you doing? I'm sorry about all this, I know you didn't ask to be here."
"I... thank you. So, I think I should just outright say I am from a different universe entirely. Get that out of the way in case... I don't know, I do something that is offensive for this culture."
"I don't think so? Have reason to be certain actually. I think your world is an alternate history version of mine, nearly identical but you guys didn't have pocket dimensions until the dreamshard got in here. Or if you do they are way more discreet."
"What do you mean exactly? It activates whenever it touches someone that is sleeping, they become a dreamshaper. I don't remember the numbers, but I think it would take thousands of years to create a planet worth of pocket dimension. He points at the horizon who seems to go on for miles. It might not look like, but if you walk long enough things start getting fog and gray and that means you are reaching the dimension's edge. If you continue you will disappear for a few minutes and reappear either back here, or on Earth or another pocket dimension that is close enough."
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