Portals to Nowhere
"They can't possibly lead nowhere," the new guy chuckled.
The old guy sighed, slashing the air with his palm. He was holding his lunch in the other hand, a warm burrito. "I'm telling you, we've tried everything!"
"Radiowa-"
"Tried it."
"Scout drone-"
"Tried it."
"Small animal-"
"Tried it, mate!" Old Guy threw his burrito in anger right into the portal's shimmering light. It simply fell inside, vanishing. "See? We've sent everything we could possibly imagine through the damn portal sort of an actual human being. Nothing gets through. It might as well be a disintegrator disk, for all the good it does." The old guy breathed deep and sat back down on the crate.
The new guy looked up at the massive portal. It was massive, the ring around it, the technical part was fa
