[Rosie crouches to offer Evie a high five. Excellent teamwork! No monster can stop them!]

A hole ripped into a world, which distorts the space that surrounds it. It can be used to travel over long distances swiftly, or even to connect with other worlds... at the cost of attracting monsters, of sapping the strength of those that enter it, and of destroying the land.

[A beat.]

Let's consider every other option first.

((Oh boy the joys of untangling Dissidia's place in Sephiroth's timeline! And then the last two chapters of Opera Omnia make things even worse.))