"Perhaps the fears are constant throughout all the universes? Perhaps they simply slipped through a crack, moving in when nobody could see them? And perhaps they appeared and developed on a much more frequent, rapid timescale than that of our own world?"

Elias gives a cavalier little shrug. "At the moment, all we have are hypotheses. In order to find anything remotely close to an answer, we should do what the Institute does best: research. Bother a few people. Ask questions."

Know.