[color=6644ff]”Of course.”[/color]

The moment Annika took her eyes off him, he was no longer there. He blurred and faded into things, like an optical illusion of two images becoming more alike the other. Jack’s ability to navigate the realms was strange in the sense that sometimes he opened portals, and sometimes he was 

The housecat wasn’t quite as enthusiastic as she was, though. Nochalla bounded around Annika’s feet, staying close to the girl and flickered her eyes to everything around where she walked. The things she could see weren’t limited to what Annika could see, and she saw things that alarmed her. Nochalla smelled something that couldn’t be smelled by a human noise. The air had shifted nanoscopic fractions in ways that only [i]Jack[/i] was familiar with.

“Mmmrw,” the cat said. Her ears cocked backwards.

Somewhere within the bounds of the Hawthorne House, there was a force that wasn’t or ally seen. The house didn’t [i]feel[/i] like it was just the two of them, and something else had enough presence that it made the walls feel… Smaller. Different.

It was not the same space-warping presence of their magic.