Into the sky, strangely enough.​ 

     Into an alien sky within herself. 

     Into this clear, blue sky. 

     Azure, she thought. I am now in a universe where everything is as blue as the clear, blue sky, where everything is azure.  

     And she felt perfectly comfortable there. 

​     There she wasn't Katy Armstrong, English Major and thirty pound overweight loser. There, in the universe of the Azure, she was one of the most important beings that had ever existed. 

​     That wasn't something that was told to her. That was something she just knew. 

​     And she was not alone in this universe. 

     A nexus amongst the multiverses was what it really was. 

     Katy could not see her, yet she knew she shared this nexus with Infini.

​     Infini. The multiverse, all that was and all that will be in all its zillions upon zillions of permutations, answered to the name of Infini.

​     Katy saw it before her very eyes, saw entire universes floating and swirling,  and she felt perfectly comfortable with that knowledge as well. It was huge and round, this mass of swirling universes, and they all floated and flowed amongst themselves. It all looked very, very busy​, yet not frantic or chaotic at all. It was, in fact, the most natural thing Katy had ever seen before in her life. It reminded her of a beehive. Only, instead of buzzing bees, Katy saw universes, trillions of them. She saw their past and their future and their now, and they blended and separated, then blended again, and this hive looked so close Katy felt she could reach out and touch it, yet she knew in her heart that it was, in truth, immeasurably far away, if distance was even a factor in this strange yet so beautiful azure place. 

     And then she saw something else, something that troubled her greatly. 

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