The rumors spread quickly.
Lootwell was planning to build a new intercontinental teleportation array, one that would connect all five continents.
Along with that rumor came another detail.
Lootwell would need to survey leyline stability and old spatial pressure points across all continents before construction could begin.
Most people focused on the array.
Many cheered.
Merchants imagined shorter routes. Students imagined visiting academies in other continents. People who had made friends through Lootwell's communication devices began calculating whether visits across the world might one day become ordinary.
Some dismissed it as exaggeration.
The old intercontinental teleportation array had been difficult enough to repair. Creating an entirely new one sounded even more absurd.
But Lootwell had already done too many absurd things.
So even those who doubted it did not dare dismiss it completely.
And then there was the minority.
