A mid-tier universe in the sector vanished without any warning.
One moment its Universe Will was present, its membrane intact, and trillions upon trillions of lifeforms were living ordinary lives. The next moment the entire universe was simply gone. The void closed over the empty space the way water closes over a dropped stone. No debris. No remnants. Nothing left to show it had ever existed.
Every Universe Will in the sector felt the disappearance at the exact same instant.
The Multiversal Will chat group activated and exploded immediately. Messages poured in.
"Did I just sense a universe disappear?"
"I felt it too. Sector 73bc vicinity."
"Could be natural entropy. It happens."
"No. I just checked the projections last cycle. No universe in our sector is anywhere near natural entropy. The earliest collapse is still several billion years out."
"Then what was that?"
"I don't know. Extending my perception now."
