Not just a gateway, but like... okay. So Geralt explained it like this to me, that his world has these huge stone monoliths all over the place. Everyone thought they were just rocks, made of some special mineral left over from some kinda apocalypse-y thing the world went through. But he found out that the monoliths can actually work like a gate, and a demon got through. She attacked some people because she wanted to go back to her own world, and he saw when she managed to go back. And that makes a lotta sense because my world had monoliths too, huge natural ones. And we had some problems with demons too. It's complicated and stupid, but my world wasn't like his -- we didn't have monsters and spirits and whatever else. So these demons that wound up with us, they really didn't belong. But they got to us somehow.

[ She exhales. It is such a long and complex story, one that she doesn't fully understand even after having lived through it, and she's leaving out large parts that tie it further together because she cannot bear to deal with those thoughts. Her demon had been here, too. He'd wanted the Singularity, wanted to control it. Using it as a gateway made logical sense. ]

It'll be okay, Jesper. I don't believe that the Singularity wants to hurt me. [ Which sounds so strangely cocky, but Julie has experienced this world, this place, in a way that no one else seems to. The Horizon takes care of her, without any impetus or thought on her part. She can do magic that the natives of this world can barely do, even after decades of study. There is something about this world, this connection, that was meant for her, specifically. She knows that now. ] I'm sure of it.

[ She snorts, at the idea of a Singularity ghost, because that's still far more human than she can fathom it being. ]

Who says it ain't out in the ether? Maybe this world, the rock, maybe it's just the Singularity's home base.