Snoisnemid
The forest looks like a forest. Leaves abounded on earth’s floors. Their spread appeared to match all memories of true leaves.
“If it rained, would it feel like rain? How would its structure, its makeup, differ from true rain?” as if questioning herself, not her travel companion, Tage’s mind searched for formulations to solve the strange, new, awkward land that reality and existence had found her in. “It is rain. It is our rain, our matter,” Egassap answered the words like light feathers falling through trees on wind currents.
He knew Tage saw him as a youngling does their own Mother, to bring her to the light to show her this land, his home. She a foreign creature to him, these duties he fulfilled to educate and navigate the newly fallen and those who mistakenly crossover, who are lost.
The place they existed in had no actual entrance or exit. How can this be? To exist without knowing how you came to be “born” into this society of the unknown. This was one world, one of the better ones to have fallen into. For now, Tage was fortunate if young Egassap could keep her here.
They were in the land of the makers. Everything had been made and molded to replicate what the 3rd dimension, the birthplace of the first original humans, had. Their scientists fabricated the grass, the trees, and the water.