It was impossible to discern, at first glance, which way the center of the manifold was. Once they entered the manifold, all sense of direction as to where the edges or the center was was completely gone. They were surrounded by greenery in all directions. On top of that, the light from the blue sun seemed to smoothly enter the manifold as if there wasn't a manifold in the first place.
On top of that, the part of the planet within the manifold had become its own planet, seemingly. It curved upon itself like it was a world unto itself. It was so remarkably indistinguishable from the real world that Ria finally understood how homo martialus within the Panama Continent hadn't discovered that they were within the manifold for a long time.
The manifold was really good at covering its tracks from the people inside and outside it. Even with her extraordinary senses and her understanding of the flow of causality, she couldn't so much as even fathom that they were inside a manifold.
