I'm also fascinated by the way things would work in a very alien or futuristic situation. I tend to discard things that can't work.

Part of why Lara Night is so carefully arranged. The myth behind it is that *everyone* has the genetic potential to be like her, but only someone with a god-like talent to manipulate DNA just the right way (like Shema) can so that she gains one simple ability: To manipulate energy in all its forms, including matter/energy conversion. Everything she can do stems from that.

She can absorb energy from all around her, and release it in many forms, including electricity, magnetic energy (yes she can probably generate EMP, but never wanted to try), and ionic bursts to shield herself, and push things, including herself to fly. She can suspend the atoms of her body in a mass of energy, making her essentially an intangible photon packet; that's how she passes through objects, or does a point to point "teleport" (she can bring passengers by stuffing their atoms into the energy mass as well). Or she can slip beneath the fabric of the universe and travel great distances in an instant, because beneath the physical universe is pure energy, where time and distance don't even exist. She gets places by swimming through that boundary like a dolphin diving through the ocean's surface, only in mirror.

Inter-dimensional travel is different; she's using an outside mechanism that she's only peripherally aware of. That mechanism is the equivalent of a virtual rivet someone applied through the fabric of the universes, making them all accessible through a single hole. It's virtual because in the sense of matter, that hole is infinitesimally small.

The secret to that rivet is that Lara can "feel' the energy around her, so only she knows where she's going to, and where home is. She found the Parodyverse by accident through the hole, but now that she knows the feel of it, she can get back each time. The same for going home. If anyone else tried navigating that hole, they would a) have to be energy to get through, and b) they wouldn't be able to find their way back.





I like thinking them up, so I may as well share them. I also enjoy the thought that someone might someday fact check one of the things I wrote about, and discover there's actual science behind it.





She probably won't like it, but she won't complain, either.