When a world ends, it's usually a fairly dramatic occurrence. With enough warning, we will pull all of our Agents and Enforcers from the world. Some elect to stay. When we say vanish, what we really mean is it is destroyed, nothing like what we're seeing here. But once the world is destroyed, the gates close forever, and whoever was there is lost. We do not attempt to save those within the worlds once the world's time has ended, just as we do not save people when their time has ended. This is part of the natural cycle of life and death, it exists throughout the multiverse and nobody, not even us here at Confuto Ordinatio, are exempt.

[Ivan will find no active resistance to his probing. Every indication leads to what he is seeing and hearing being at face value, but he is likely assaulted by touching the mind, for within it seems to be several thousand consciousnesses, all tired, weary, and utterly devoted to a singular purpose. In touching his mind you see scenarios just like this playing out across an enormous complex you have only touched but the merest fraction of.]