Chapter 39 - Walls pretending to be doors (Patreon)

I cleared my throat uncomfortably, looking anywhere but at her, feeling a little embarrassed. Thankfully, Natasha rescued me.

“Stairways that move with intelligence, walls pretending to be doors and doors pretending to be walls,” Natasha exasperatedly continued. “Seemingly sentient portraits and ghosts.”

“Girls, chalk all this up to ‘magic,’” I soothed. “Magic is wonder and whimsy and routinely making the impossible, possible, even the 24thcentury version of possible. And if it helps, view the magical people and races as species with the ability to biologically manipulate energy and reality. In fact, I suspect the wizards and witches are capable of utilizing zero-point energy or anaphasic energy and they represent another evolution of humanity, perhaps even humanity further along the path.”