Channelknight Fadran

Ayia blinked at the contraption. "Okay!" She decided.

"There's a hill in the way." Ayia replied simply.

"Ashley! Right. Uhh... do yourself a solid and don't step about two more feet that way? You might get shot like I did."

"Uhm... you..." Ayia snapped her fingers and pointed at her. "Ash? Ashl?" "It's just rare here."

"This is the Cosmere, so no."

"No clue."

"That's okay. We just need some aluminum..."

"Because you'll be taking a picture of the barrier, not whatever's inside of it.

"But your picture won't take you inside."

"Think of it like an invisibility cloak."

"'And Arwen said: 'Dark is the Shadow, and yet my heart rejoices; for you, Estel, shall be among the great whose valour will destroy it. ' 'But Aragorn answered: 'Alas! I cannot foresee it, and how it may come to pass is hidden from me.'"

"You don't have a picture of inside, though." "Guys, you weren't the one who got shot with an arrow. Stop being self-depricating. You're going to be useful. Just you wait."

"Ara?" Wendy whispered from the bushes. She couldn't tell who was who in the darkness.

Fadran didn't reply. He just cracked open his copy of Lord of the Rings and turned the page.

"Well, if the field is powered by Investiture..." "How?"

"We get aluminum," Ayia said. "Lots and lots of aluminum."

"Not sure. That's just the word that popped into my head."

"Yeah. For her."

"There are two ways to get past one of these barriers," Ayia said, "Option one: brute force. I kind of doubt a bomb would keep it down for long enough for us to get through, though."

"Hm. So..." Fadran scratched his chin. "What you need... is some context."

"Most likely. That doesn't mean it's impenetrable, though."

"I imagine it goes all the way around; top, bottom, sides."

"I'm getting there, but first I need to explain a couple more things. See, where I come from, the government is very Macrosmos-aware; in fact, it's conquered a few other universes in its spare time." She gestured to her floating staff. "This power is native to my world, but they've learned how to fuel it with magic from other universes; assuming said magic has some similar properties, anyways. And Invesiture is all over the place here on Sel. It'd be just like that corrupt King Qalar to strike a deal with someone like Wyrn... he's probably giving Wyrn access to this power for some kind of... experiment." Ayia glanced back at the wall. "I've never seen our magic Stabilize the air itself, but with other kinds of magic and technology... who knows what different kinds of magic can do." @Chasmgoat

"Its size is about as close to infinity as infinity is."