And for the first time, it found nothing. Her home universe had been sealed off—erased by a quiet cosmic bureaucracy error. There was no door back.

Once upon a time, in the chaotic crossroads of the multiverse, there existed a hub world called . It was a place where time streams collided, tour groups from alternate realities bumped into each other, and lost travelers from a thousand dimensions tried to find their way home.

Travibot stood still for a long moment. Then it did something no one had ever seen it do. It extended one small bronze wing and patted Mira’s hand.

Travibot nodded.