unrelated effects. Like a patch of rock melting across the room or my rabbit transforming into a bird. That last one was really disturbing, all the extra mass peeled away in what had to be a painful way. Dani asked why I insisted on having rabbits in the room while I worked, and after an arm appeared and pulled a rabbit in, I explained over the squelching noises drifting through the portal, <You see, I thought that pattern was correct. There was no indication that I had it wrong, and I would have started testing it. Something on the other side was waiting, something hungry. If the rabbit
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