How the Abyssal Hole Works

"No matter what form they took beneath the abyssal hole, meaningful things and meaningless things had to be connected somehow."

"Like the rods linking the Shadow Play figures, making them a whole in a certain sense."

"What should be done, then?"

"For the Abyss, this was not a particularly complicated matter. It had many ways to solve this problem, and the method it chose also made use of projection."

"Just as a small stone could be projected into a mountain, projection had a great deal of freedom. It could be stretched, twisted, sheared... The Abyss specifically projected certain things down for the sake of 'connection.'"

"Those things were—physical laws."

"These distorted physical laws could firmly bind those textures to real objects."

"The simplest of them was the projection of 'force.'"

"Above the abyssal hole, one only needed to find any gravitational force and could use it to project countless other forces. Since they were projections, those forces could have their direction and magnitude altered at will. They could be twisted into magnetism or placed in the air and used as lift."

"A simple vector, once projected, could become anything. The Abyss could use these vector 'screws' to assemble anything together. These forces that appeared from nowhere did not need to obey any physical laws. They could exist or vanish at will, and their numbers could be manipulated freely."

"For instance, things that needed to be fixed in place could be held somewhere with a series of projected forces."

"If they were textures of flying birds circling in the air, they could be given a projection of force that constantly changed direction, making them circle endlessly within a fixed range. This was also the simplest application of projected laws."

"However, precisely because it was so simple, errors could easily occur."

"Some