That night, late, when all was quiet, Stella Sterling rested for a bit and read a book. After making sure her door was locked, she entered her space.
In her hands were the few pieces of jade and jade ornaments she had taken from that "Skinny Monkey."
Once inside, Stella Sterling tossed the items directly into the space's exchange area.
This time, she wasn't ejected from the space and got to watch it change bit by bit with her own eyes.
A thick fog suddenly rose within the space. After it dissipated, the distant mountains had become more solid, more and more real.
Indeed, the space had been undergoing greater and greater changes over the past two years. A year ago, mountains and trees had even begun to appear.
But when Stella Sterling had gone to check before, those mountains and trees weren't real—just illusory phantoms.
She could see them, but she couldn't touch them.
