Titans of Chaos

I did not even bother to try to move out of Colin's grasp. Instead I said, "Vanity, have the shipbear toward Victor and Quentin. If she cannot see where they are, have her go"-I pointed-"thatway." With my powers back on, I could see strands of moral energy, perhaps representing themutual obligations of the group, streaming off in that direction.

One of the objects that had been kept from me during my youth and imprisonment was a child'stoy from my home, which could unfold from a point, to a line, to a disk, to a globe, to afour-dimensional hypersphere. It gave off, not light, but some heavier particle of hyperspace,which allowed me to sense the over-reality around me with senses that can barely be explained inthree dimensions.

Hyperspace is dark. Energy falls off, not as an inverse square of distance, but an inverse cube.

Hyperspace is thick. Each particle has both volume and hypervolume, and therefore has muchmore mass crammed into a smaller area than its 3-D counterpart. Sound and light don't travelthere very far.

But I had four new sense impressions, because the subject-object relations are very different inoverspace. If an object was useful to my will, I could see the distortion in the time-energy causedby that object having more futures than a useless object had: Vanity's silver ship was ablaze withpossibilities.

Likewise, if a person had a reciprocal moral obligation with me (for free will also distorted thetime-frames), I could see it like a thread tying us together. Immoral acts were visible as tangles orsnarls.

Every object had an internal nature: I could see the drunken anger of storm clouds, or the gentlemelancholy of deep water, the placid ferocity of fish.

Every object-energy-event combination had a monad, a unity of mind-matter that could berotated along four axes to produce more free will or less, open up pearly gray shining zones ofquantum uncertainty, or collapse into hard bright lights of no-probability.

I did not try to open the hypersphere into its five-dimensional aspect. I have three additionalsenses operating there, fit for the harder-than-neutronium density of that environment, which candetect extension, relation, existence.