The Shift

The membrane between the jurisdictions. It moves Verone across space, sometimes across realities, and it decides where.

Designation: THE SHIFT
Class: Membrane between jurisdictions
Jurisdiction: The Shift

"Clearance, not safety."

It promises nothing else. The Shift is the membrane between jurisdictions. In the vertical structure it shares a table with the layers and counts as none of them, because it's exposure.

Carriage

It moves Verone across space and, when it wants to, across realities. It decides. He goes.

Between jobs it carries him back to the place he rests. On the job, it's one half of How a Case Arrives.

Hop and traversal

Two sizes. A hop is small: here, then there, barely a sound, and somehow that's worse.

A full traversal is heavy, and it wears the Shift's look, "identity under pressure." The traveler is spread across the places he's been and the place he's arriving.