Good news and bad news

Standing in front of the small, black pebble calmly lying on the side of the road, I was frozen in place, unable to decide whether to use it or not. Despite how hard it was to understand everything that Bonger tried to explain to me, I had the general idea about the meaning behind his words. 

*But wait, I remember you telling me to imagine the y-axis as well before you started talking about the values of the x-axis and multiple dimensions… But what about that Y-axis? What does it represent?*

While I knew that sooner or later I would have to traverse through the portal in order to check on Eve there wasn't much difference between doing it right away and waiting a few moments before taking this steps, especially if those few punny moments would enable me to understand what was going on through the transportation process and maybe even stealing away a bit of knowledge about the negative realm!