[ These particular three are pretty much the gods of his world, to be fair, but he isn't about to give them the satisfaction of being referred to that way. Not that they're listening to him, or would really care. ]
I'm not willing to stake too much on the assumption that we'll be able to come and go at will.
[ After all, it was impossible to leave a fractured dimension until you destroyed it. If the divergence catalyst was well hidden, you were just stuck there until you found it, no matter how many days it took or what emergencies arose.
That's not exactly the case here, of course, since part of that last team made it out before and the thing is obviously still there, but. He doesn't trust at all that there won't be something keeping them in there until they meet whatever hidden condition it's looking for. (And it looks like their overseers are considering similar possibilities, if they're sending them off with this much in supplies.) ]
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I'm not willing to stake too much on the assumption that we'll be able to come and go at will.
[ After all, it was impossible to leave a fractured dimension until you destroyed it. If the divergence catalyst was well hidden, you were just stuck there until you found it, no matter how many days it took or what emergencies arose.
That's not exactly the case here, of course, since part of that last team made it out before and the thing is obviously still there, but. He doesn't trust at all that there won't be something keeping them in there until they meet whatever hidden condition it's looking for. (And it looks like their overseers are considering similar possibilities, if they're sending them off with this much in supplies.) ]