Frustration was a two-way street, as Cynthia, too, felt rather disheartened trying to understand that man - or making him see things the way she did. How strange it was that neither would fully give up on the other; obstinacy was perhaps one of the very few things they would ever have in common.

"The universe is much bigger than you and I could have ever imagined," She begins again, closing her eyes as though to help her retrieve memories from those places she visited prior to arriving here. Telling him straight out he was wrong likely would not have worked, she figured. "There are many more worlds out there, worlds where the deities had no power over. They are parallel dimensions, coexisting without ever interfering with one another."

A pause and she glances at him again, from the corner of her eyes. "A portal like this means the rules of our current universe, as it was supposed to be, have already been broken. It has changed, even if not in the way you wanted."