In the little town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a town not ordinary by any means, the sun is just beginning to rise. Woods edge the town, orange and green leaves mixing together in the autumn air. All around, a pine scent soothes the mind, wind rising off of the distant lake. In a town where science and elegant, victorian era architecture mingle together, nothing looks out of the ordinary. A normal morning, on a normal November day, half way through the month.

However, deep within the trees, a rift opens in the space time continuum. Waves of color shoot out, sending a brief flash of light into the sky. A second later, it vanishes as if it never existed. The portal stays though, shivering lightly against a background of fallen leaves. Unless a person stands at the right angle, it appears as nothing more than a beam of light, or a heat wave except it isn’t hot at all. The portal just sits there though, as the sun rises in a clear blue sky. Nothing is strange. Nothing is extraordinary at all. Just a normal day in a normal town, ready to tumble straight into chaos. Just as soon as someone steps through, from a place not nearly as ordinary as this. Not at all.

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What would happen if two worlds that normally don’t touch, collided? The world of the ordinary—our world—and that of fandom. This is a story of how those characters from created works enter the world of ordinary people. What happens when they meet our world? What happens to the residents of Eureka Springs? This is that story.