[ What's Carlisle looking at? Qubit turns to see for himself, realizes with considerable alarm that what he's looking at isn't part of his lab - and then the Shift proper hits.
It's difficult to describe what it's like, watching space and time cease to mean much of anything. The walls stretch and compress simultaneously. Up is down, left is right, parallel lines converge, c is not constant in a vacuum, and the visible spectrum shrinks to only its longest wavelengths, such that the only color the human eye perceives is red...
Qubit's never been caught in this phenomenon before, but the color tips him off. ]
A Redshift? Here?!
[ He turns back to Carlisle, but doesn't see his friend. The man standing in his place is a stranger. Startled, Qubit recoils, but loses his balance and staggers into a wall - but the wall is the ground, and always was, just as the man who surprised him is Carlisle again, and always was. His eyes narrow with determination, and on impulse he sticks out his hand. ]
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It's difficult to describe what it's like, watching space and time cease to mean much of anything. The walls stretch and compress simultaneously. Up is down, left is right, parallel lines converge, c is not constant in a vacuum, and the visible spectrum shrinks to only its longest wavelengths, such that the only color the human eye perceives is red...
Qubit's never been caught in this phenomenon before, but the color tips him off. ]
A Redshift? Here?!
[ He turns back to Carlisle, but doesn't see his friend. The man standing in his place is a stranger. Startled, Qubit recoils, but loses his balance and staggers into a wall - but the wall is the ground, and always was, just as the man who surprised him is Carlisle again, and always was. His eyes narrow with determination, and on impulse he sticks out his hand. ]
Carlisle! Grab on! We must not get separated!