Her power was available to her, but the range was too small.

Ahh, I see.

She needed time to soak it into an area, and she’d gone for a walk earlier.  Two hours since she’d gotten back, and her power was limited to her room, the neighboring rooms, the upstairs hallway and the exterior walls of the building that surrounded these areas.

That is a very interesting mechanic. It might also explain the timing of the Crew’s intrusion on the Merchant get-together.

Not enough to reach the street where the fighting was happening.  And if she moved beyond the boundaries, she would be losing ground.  Any time she moved to a new place, beyond the limits of where her power was taking effect, her area of influence shrunk to a few feet around her, only to start gradually bleeding out once more, faster with each passing minute.

Huh. Which also means that the larger the area she has to play with, the more it takes for it to reset like this.

She tried using it anyways.  Closing her eyes, she reached for the other worlds.

Hm.

How literally is this what she is doing? We know there are other worlds, including our own, so I guess it’s not far-fetched that there’s one with moving pillars in the location of the ABB hideout, or one with a temple containing a maze in place of the Weymouth shopping center.

Or a temple in one world and a maze in another.

Pocket worlds, as she interpreted them.  Realities that were a blank canvas to be altered according to her thoughts, both conscious and unconscious.

Ahh. So then it’s somewhere in-between the world of Labyrinth’s imagination and real worlds.

Real worlds of her imagination, I suppose.

They were lucid dreams that were big enough, detailed enough, intricate enough to swallow her up, as they so often did.

I see.

I don’t know if I ever stated it explicitly, but it’s been pretty clear to me that Labyrinth being “in her own world” had her seeing some of the same sorts of things she can “create” in combat.

She could make new ones at a whim, but she found it better to build on what she already had.

Seems reasonable.

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