Connects through portals

Closing my eyes, I listened.

I could hear the sound of an open portal nearby. I needed to find out if this link between my sleeping body and myself would survive through a portal, or whether it would be cut off. There was no point in bothering with portals at all if I was just going to lose bodies through them, and it would be better to learn about them now than later.

I ran three blocks, and I wasn’t gasping for air and there wasn’t a single drop of sweat on my body. I hadn’t fully switched over to human; it was a lot easier to switch back and forth when you had a foot in both worlds.

Stopping, I looked around the corner.

There was a portal hanging in the middle of the alley. Nobody was around, and so I slipped down the alleyway and headed for the portal. It was still open, and I would have taken a deep breath if I’d needed to.

I stepped through it, wondering if I was about to get unceremoniously dumped back into my body, or maybe into the other one.

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Lobster