Free - 5dmcity

This is the tax of the fifth dimension: Total Awareness of the Road Not Taken.

And so, the citizens of the 5DMCity walk with their heads down. Not out of shame, but out of a desperate attempt to focus on the here and now. They try to pretend the ground is solid, even though they can feel the void buzzing beneath the pavement. They try to love the person in front of them, even though they can see the ghost of the person they might have loved more standing just behind their shoulder. 5dmcity

Walk down a street in the old world, and you see a derelict storefront. It failed. It is empty. But walk down that same street in 5DMCity, and you feel the weight of the timeline where it succeeded. You are walking through the ghost of the bustling café that exists three probability branches to the left. The city is a palimpsest of infinite drafts, scribbled over one another until the ink bleeds through. This is the tax of the fifth dimension: