Eventually, he managed to sneak a few words of his own out. "Then… if you all already knew other universes existed, why does me being here matter so much?"
Hestia's expression flattened.
"Because knowing something exists is very different from being able to touch it."
She folded her hands in front of her chest, squeezing her breasts together, then continued. "For all our knowledge, for all the ages the gods have observed the great patterns of creation, one truth remained absolute."
Her golden eyes narrowed.
"The divide between universes could not be traversed."
Rohan swallowed hard. Now that just sounded contradictory with everything she had just said. How could he be there if it was supposed to be impossible, even for Gods?
"No god has done it, no matter how much they have tried. No mortal has done it. Nothing, no will of any realm has ever successfully crossed from one universe to another and remained intact, to my knowledge."
