Dimensional travel, in my head, but this is allegory, the details are intentionally unspecified. I worked on making the literalness more plausible without outright lying to the reader, but it’s a hard needle to thread.
The conclusion is not as strong as I’d like, but illusion of transparency is real, so I’m leery of completely removing the didactic quality. It’s much subtler than the Fable of the Dragon Tyrant already, and that one works well (though I think it would be better if it was less of an anvil-drop).
Dimensional travel, in my head, but this is allegory, the details are intentionally unspecified. I worked on making the literalness more plausible without outright lying to the reader, but it’s a hard needle to thread.
The conclusion is not as strong as I’d like, but illusion of transparency is real, so I’m leery of completely removing the didactic quality. It’s much subtler than the Fable of the Dragon Tyrant already, and that one works well (though I think it would be better if it was less of an anvil-drop).