Feo Takahari
Auror
One of the central ideas in my current project is that the more two worlds differ, the more probability in both worlds warps to make the two likely to become similar again. This is easily portrayed as a rubber-band effect, stretched out and then snapped back. But while the character explaining this is probably familiar with natural rubber, the character she's talking to has never left her hometown, and the local ecology is too cold and dry for rubber trees. How else might I approach this? (A branch bending and then returning to position doesn't have the same ring to it.)