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[death_calling]

The Nexus is not a new location to Olivia, as she has occasionally found herself visiting for limited periods many moons ago. Today is the longest of those sessions, settling into the outside seating of a bustling cafe.

None of the chaos behind her warrants any sort of attention, rather, she's completely blocked out the sounds of rattling dishes and scrambling workers. Diverted between a cup of tea and a stacks of books on different scientific topics, she's submerged herself in the task of gathering information. However, the snacks the cafe offers do help to alleviate any frustrations she might be hiding.

Furrowing her brows at a particular chapter in her book, she closes it and takes a moment to reflect.

"I don't understand the mystery of this place. Not a single book details the creation of the "Nexus" or how it came to be. So how does it draw people into it? Why do people come here?" The question was intended to be directed inward, but ever her thoughts tend to slip out audibly at times. Perhaps a bit of conversation will quell her curious mind for the next few hours.

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[bigpoofymammoth]

"Honestly, I've been asking myself the same thing ever since I came here months ago." Manny says as he heard Olivia's question while passing by. He still doesn’t fully understand exactly how the Nexus works in spite of being there for quite a while.

[tielle_mortevus]

Noting the question as she sips her drink, Tielle thinks back to all she's come to learn about the Nexus, and by extension extraplanar travel, as well as what little tidbits she remembers from her sister's brief obsession with the topic back from her own world. She leans back a bit in her chair, glancing over to where Olivia is sitting.

"Perhaps it's simply a matter of proximity. Travel between worlds and universes, while not necessarily common occurrence for some of us, definitely exists. If it didn't, we wouldn't be here... though I do have a theory..."

She pulls out a small journal and starts making a few sketches, drawing out a series of what appear to be planets, or perhaps worlds.

"I would assume most universes or other planes remain somewhat fixed in place. Reliable travel between them would be impossible otherwise, or at least at a consistency others who seem to have mastered the art seem to be able to traverse them. If one universe were to be able to move freely though... drifting amongst the fixed planes of existence... perhaps as it brushed up against these other fixed planes, there would be a bit of an overlap, however brief it may be, that would allow things to pass between them. It would explain why people seem to end up here at seemingly random, and why it's so damn hard to get here intentionally..."

She shakes her head, chuckling a bit.

"...but this is all just wild speculation. I've got nothing to really go on to prove any of this."

[pirateangelbaby]

"Perhaps it's always existed." Thor is sitting one table over, bundled up in layers against the wintery chill, his long hair tied up away from his face. His prosthetic hand is ungloved, and he's using the better dexterity to break off bits of the biscuits on his napkin to feed to two ravens lounging on the tabletop, the birds eagerly snapping up the morsels and croaking for more.

He turns his head a little to see her better and gives her a small smile and a shrug. "It's like asking why Yggdrasil exists, I think. It simply does, and the worlds orbit around it, intersecting with its branches to connect to the rest of the Worlds Tree. Yggdrasil has secret pathways that connect to different Realms; the Nexus seems to work in similar ways."