Chapter 43: Breakfast with Friends
One hastily put together but still hearty dinner-slash-breakfast later, the three sat around the coffee table drinking hot cups of tea.
"So, just to make sure I’m getting this right," began Misha, "what happened was someone - we don’t know who - made a Coil all the way around the old location of the Kowloon Walled City park, dragging in all the surrounding buildings, and reshaping them into the actual Walled City. Then they put a guardian in there to make sure it kept on existing, so when we defeated that guardian, the Coil disappeared, and the space went back to normal."
Bran nodded at Misha’s summary. "You have the main points down, although, on the topic of guardians, the person who made the Coil didn’t actually specify the guardian, the guardian was a naturally occuring part of the Coil due to how transparent it was."
"...Right."
"Do you remember Coral’s dream-Coil and the grey walls in it? That was a guardian too," said Bran.
"Oh! So in the little girl’s Coil...?" asked Misha.
"Now that I’m not sure about," replied Bran.
"None of us were in the Coil for very long," Amethyst interjected. "It is possible that, had we remained longer, it would have appeared."
"I see..." said Misha. "Okay, this might be a stupid question but... why did no one notice?" This had been the number one thing bothering him. Well, the number two thing. The number one thing was Bran and how their knees were almost touching.
"Dream logic," replied Bran. "Or at least, something like it."
"You mean... in the moment, you think it’s normal, but once you wake up - or in this case leave - you realise something was wrong? But surely people have been going in and out of the Walled City. I mean, heck, we’ve been going in and out, why didn’t we know?"