"It's not a crack in the material," Kael said, his voice dry. "It's a crack in the metric . The slab is still here, but some of its quantum states are... elsewhere."
And on the other side, something with many scales and no eyes at all was learning to whisper back. Multiscatter Crack
The test slab of reinforced carbonite sat in the vacuum chamber, seemingly intact. Yet the sensors registered a ghost—a faint, high-frequency whisper bouncing between dimensions. The crack had formed, all right: a fractal lattice of stress lines so fine they existed between molecules, then between atoms, then between the quarks inside the nucleons. It didn't break the slab. It broke the space the slab occupied. "It's not a crack in the material," Kael said, his voice dry
But the readout wasn't showing a clean collapse. It was showing a leak . elsewhere