God’s Compensation/Another try at 4D travel
“I want to try it again,” you tell him. You start focusing on that weird movement without stepping again, except in a different direction from where you tried to move before. This time, you are rewarded with the sight of the world warping and shifting around you as objects seem to move from their proper place and buildings change shape.
You look at the sight of the altered building with a huge childish open-mouth grin on your face. “Ohh!” You exclaim in a half sigh of self satisfaction.
“Good, you got it,” Mr. Austin tells you. You look back at him, trying your best to stuff down the expression of child-like joy you have on your face. Somehow, it just strikes you as completely undignified to be this excited about something that probably comes so completely natural to him, like being overjoyed about learning to walk when you are a baby. In a way, that’s exactly the equivalent. That being the case, you do not want to reduce yourself to that state.
“Damn that’s satisfying,” you decide to settle your enthusiasm with that simple comment.
“I imagine so,” Mr. Austin says. “Well, you’re as good as blind at actually navigating the 4th dimension, so how about I take you back to your own 3D plain?” You give him a quick nod and he takes you by the arm and shoulder, exactly as one might guide a blind man, and turns you to face a direction somewhat toward the building. “Try to focus on moving your own feet this time as I guide you rather than stumbling along.” Were you that bad the first time? You legitimately couldn’t tell. At any rate, he begins guiding you along at a much slower pace than the first time and you do try and focus a bit on doing your 4D walk straight in the direction he has pointed you.
“Good,” Mr. Austin says, “Now, we are going to pass through something of a 4D equivalent of a door here. It is really more that one 3D plane that is outside directly bumps up against another where it is inside, so you might just say that a 4th dimension wall simply doesn’t exist in this room.” At these words, the entire world around you seems to warp like a kalido-scope as the space inside of a room appears as a small marble in front of you witch expands and at some point seems to engulf you, then suddenly you are back in a room. You somewhat recognize this room. It is one of those alternative arrangements of a doctor’s office you saw before. You can tell it is not the one you started in, but at least you recognize it. “Just a little further now,” Mr. Austin says, and then continues to guide you.
The room continues to warp as you make your 4D legs move according to the direction Mr. Austin has pointed you. You are starting to get the hang of this, but of course you do still have the problem that you cannot really see where you are going.
“Ok, here we are,” Mr. Austin announces. You look around the room but do not have much frame of reference other than your trust in Mr. Austin’s words that he is telling you the truth. That is, until you notice the strange 4D cube on the counter, the tesseract that Mr. Austin had handed you before. Well, guess that actually does settle it. You are back in the 3D plane that used to be your home until a few hours ago when it rejected you.
“I think I need to sit down again,” you announce. You actually do feel a little weak in the knees after that whole experience, and now that you have the relief of being back where you belong it is suddenly all catching up with you.
“I can understand that,” Mr. Austin responds as he releases you to go sit back in the chair. “So then, with your senses the way they are, I am pretty sure you should not consider wandering around in the 4th dimension by yourself. Not until we can find some means for you to use as a reference to get back here anyway.” You nod your agreement to this statement. You really would probably just get lost if you started wandering around like that. You are relatively certain those few 4D steps you took on your own before Mr. Austin started guiding you were not in the correct direction to get back home at all, even though that was partially your intention when you took them. “So,” he continues, “do you think you might want to call it a day and start thinking about your living situation? Or would you like to try 6D travel now? It would actually make things a little easier in terms of supporting yourself if you can use a little 6D trick to duplicate physical material, such as food.”
Well, that sounds pretty interesting.