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It had been like a million camera flashes. An uncountable number of slides which flashed before them like poor animation. Flashes of other worlds, flashes of other devices, which exploded in front of them in slow motion. It felt like it had taken years, and at the same time, only moments. Each flash, each vision was burnt onto their retinas. Then, suddenly, it was over.
The first time Spencer had been taken to a new universe by the Vibobbler, it had felt like someone had turned him inside out. Admittedly he hadn’t had any fog at that point. The glass he’d had this time hadn’t seemed to help though. There were at least thirty seconds after he had landed on a hard wooden floor when he’d thought someone had removed his skin. When this subsided, he wondered if it was at all possible that someone had replaced all of his bones with some sort of fire. All in all, he felt terrible.
“Ugh!" he managed. He thought it summed up the situation pretty well. Pretty soon he heard similar groaning from nearby, but of a female persuasion.
“Becky?” he croaked. There was a moment of silence before she answered.
“I’m here. Though I’m not sure I want to be right now.” Spencer laughed and then wished he hadn’t as his ribs almost exploded from his chest.
It took them around half an hour before they managed to get to their feet and look around. They were in Ingress, that much was clear. The old house apparently existed in whatever universe they had landed. Becky was the first to a window.
“Well, I think we can definitely say that we’re not in Alexandria, or home.”
Spencer looked around, but Nebwett didn’t seem to be there. He walked over to the window and stood beside Becky, his arm lightly touching hers. Outside, was a grass area, with trees dotted around. Well kept paths wound round them on various routes. In the background, white, glistening towers shone in the sun. Above them, two silver objects swooped overhead. They looked like spaceships. Spencer smiled.
“Well, this is going to be interesting.”