Frame - Portals On Steroids

Every time he pulled, the room grew smaller. The ceiling dipped. The walls bruised. He realized the terrifying truth of the "Steroid" effect: the frame wasn't moving him to a new place—it was .

He looked through the frame at a solid brick wall. He grabbed the corner of the frame and pushed . The bricks within the rectangle didn't break; they compressed, turning into a liquid slurry that flowed out of the way. He reached in, grabbed a handful of "liquid stone," and pulled it out into his world. It instantly hardened into a perfect, gravity-defying sphere. "Frame locked," the AI chirped. Frame Portals on Steroids

With a final, desperate shove, Elias flipped the frame flat against the ground. The loop closed. The room snapped back to its original dimensions with a thunderous crack , leaving nothing behind but a perfectly square hole in the floor that led, infinitely, into itself. Every time he pulled, the room grew smaller

The frame began to vibrate, its edges glowing a violent violet. Elias had pushed the too far. He saw himself standing on the other side, but his "other" was holding the frame from the opposite end. They were playing a tug-of-war with the fabric of existence. He realized the terrifying truth of the "Steroid"

Most portals were windows—you looked through them to see another place. This was different. As he slid the frame three inches to the left, the room didn't just show a new vista; it .