"That makes sense," Strange admits, with a little nod. "I think I might have encountered that barrier when I died."

Or at least, he encountered something. Strange isn't entirely sure how to describe that feeling of nothingness that settled on him after the tuunbaq killed him. A gate is a good enough term as any.

"My world does not seem to have any of those gates. There simply is 'being dead' and then 'being alive.'"