The only clues are a teenage survivor named Aidan Greer and a neurologist, Professor Mirabel Clarke, who fled the scene. Clarke reveals she conducted an experiment on group consciousness using electromagnetic frequencies, which caused the villagers to perceive and enter an invisible "doorway" to another perceptual reality. After weeks of scientific investigation, Freya and Clarke recreate the experiment with Aidan's help, establishing a bridge between realities that allows most villagers to return. In the climactic finale, the phenomenon becomes unstable, threatening to spread beyond the village. Aidan, whose unique neural patterns kept him from originally disappearing, bravely enters the distortion with Freya to close the breach. Using his connection to both realities, Aidan successfully rescues the remaining nineteen villagers, collapsing the phenomenon completely. The story concludes with the authorities likely to create a conventional explanation while those who witnessed the truth will carry the knowledge that reality is far more flexible than previously believed.