Titans of Chaos

the surface of my purse into its interior; and a third group superimposed the purse on the interiorof my pocket. To me, it looked much like putting a paper cutout of a purse inside a pocket-shapedline drawn on a plane. Since the purse actually (now that I could see it from more than 180

degrees at once) looked too large to fit through the mouth of the pocket, I would have to use thesame means to get it out again, or resort to knifing open the pocket seams.

A fourth group of motes reached "into" my pants pocket and tilted the switch-hook of my phoneinto the fourth dimension, so that it popped "up." The mere fact that the lid of the phone was shutno longer engaged the off button. In effect, this took the cell phone off the hook without actuallyopening it.

A fifth group of motes folded the tiny area of time-space around my pants pocket to hold itagainst my ear.

I am not sure what this might have looked like to outside three-dimensional observers. Maybethey would have seen me bend at the waist at an impossible angle to put my ear to my hip. Maybethey would have seen or heard sound waves being teleported out of my pocket through awormhole directly into my ear.

A manipulation set up a second distance-negating space-fold between my mouth and the cellphone's cunningly made little mouthpiece.

Maybe an outside observer would have seen me twisted like a Mobius pretzel to have my mouthand ear both pressed up against the same convex surface in a way spherical heads cannot. Iprefer to think they would have seen a second wormhole opening between my head and mypocket, without any gross distortions. After all, the limited three-dimensional light would havefollowed the space-time curve as if it were flat, right? Outside observers surely would have seen apretty girl with little firefly glints in a complex halo around her head. Hope so, anyway.

Multidimensional continuum control is a fine superpower-there is none better-but no girl wants aparadigm she cannot use without looking icky.

Vanity's voice came over the phone speaker: "Amelia! Amelia! Oh, God, please answer!"

"I'm here."

"Something just saw you. Something powerful and terrible. Then another group of somethingsjoined in. There is a crowd looking at you."