Cassie turned back to Astrid and Hiccup and Toothless with a winning smile. "Roughly what they said. Also, we are so going to talk axe-throwing later. And the more appropriate places to do it." Because she was totally up for axe-throwing, but Phil was going to make grumpy noises about that new crevasse in the wood.
"Basically, there's this...entity that we're calling 'Kuk', since it doesn't really have a name. It wants to destroy all of reality. One of the creatures here, the magical ones, opened the door and let Kuk in enough to weaken the walls of reality. If it gets all the way through, it'll destroy this reality and use it as a stepping-stone to destroy all the others. His presence is also causing chunks of reality to drop off, fortunately we can find them and put them back into place.
"Now, stories travel through the walls of reality more easily than people do, so that's how the kids here know about us. When Kuk started weakening the walls of reality, the kids reached out for people who made them feel safe. They reached for us, and we fell through. Because of the way this world works, we get some kind of beyond-human abilities that get more powerful the more kids believe in us. There's a kid we know who starts us all off, we'll introduce you guys as soon as everyone else gets back."
She took a deep breath. "We also can't get back to our realities until this is fixed, not necessarily on a permanent basis. Upside, the people who have gone back and then ended up back here, more time is passing here than in our home realities, so our loved ones aren't going to freak out about us vanishing."
She ran her fingers back through her hair, pursing her lips. "I think that covers the basics. Questions?"
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Cassie turned back to Astrid and Hiccup and Toothless with a winning smile. "Roughly what they said. Also, we are so going to talk axe-throwing later. And the more appropriate places to do it." Because she was totally up for axe-throwing, but Phil was going to make grumpy noises about that new crevasse in the wood.
"Basically, there's this...entity that we're calling 'Kuk', since it doesn't really have a name. It wants to destroy all of reality. One of the creatures here, the magical ones, opened the door and let Kuk in enough to weaken the walls of reality. If it gets all the way through, it'll destroy this reality and use it as a stepping-stone to destroy all the others. His presence is also causing chunks of reality to drop off, fortunately we can find them and put them back into place.
"Now, stories travel through the walls of reality more easily than people do, so that's how the kids here know about us. When Kuk started weakening the walls of reality, the kids reached out for people who made them feel safe. They reached for us, and we fell through. Because of the way this world works, we get some kind of beyond-human abilities that get more powerful the more kids believe in us. There's a kid we know who starts us all off, we'll introduce you guys as soon as everyone else gets back."
She took a deep breath. "We also can't get back to our realities until this is fixed, not necessarily on a permanent basis. Upside, the people who have gone back and then ended up back here, more time is passing here than in our home realities, so our loved ones aren't going to freak out about us vanishing."
She ran her fingers back through her hair, pursing her lips. "I think that covers the basics. Questions?"