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The Reality Vault

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You are following the Slow Read, which begins with the Prologue on Saturday 10 October and reads a chapter a week. Read ahead? Choose the last chapter you have finished. The site hides anything from a chapter you have not reached; this is proof of reading, never of buying, and a library copy counts.

A white-tiled floor that goes on for ever, so polished you can see yourself upside down in it, and above it the orbs: not the worlds themselves, the keys to them. The further in you walk, the sicker they get.

  • “the floor so polished that Kate could see the three of them standing on their own heads in it” (Ch 9)
  • “Touch the wrong one, and you might fall in.” (Ch 9)

Every orb here has a plain description. Nothing in the Vault flashes; in 3D the orbs glow and turn slowly, and stay still if your device asks for reduced motion.

The round door and its two keypads

The orbs come into view as your reading reaches Ch 9. Read ahead of the Slow Read? Set the last chapter you have finished.

You are following the Slow Read, which begins with the Prologue on Saturday 10 October and reads a chapter a week. Read ahead? Choose the last chapter you have finished. The site hides anything from a chapter you have not reached; this is proof of reading, never of buying, and a library copy counts.