Chapter 158: The World Beyond the Veil

Thelma Zane’s Perspective “You saw me, right? I saw you too,” Dorothy’s voice emerged from behind me, cutting through the chaos. I spun around, only to catch the faintest glimpse of her before she vanished. “I was standing in front of you just moments ago,” she continued, her voice calm despite the calamity. “Now, I’m walking a few steps behind. The fact that you can see me in fragments means the space we’re in is overlapping in an orderly manner. Every detail corresponds.” “What are you saying?” My head swirled with confusion. It felt as though I had a hundred questions but no capacity for answers. Dorothy sighed, exasperation tinging her words. “I always knew you didn’t pay attention during Master Mary’s lessons,” she muttered. “She explained concepts like this before. “Let me simplify it. Our earlier assumptions were wrong. We’ve been focusing on time as the cause of this chaos, thinking that temporal disruptions warped space. But the truth is the reverse—space is th