The way Jace is like "You saw Alicent?!" is just like when girls are banging their head because their their other friend decided to go see her ex lmffaoooo
Jace totally knows his mommy is in love with step-grandma/the step-mom that never was
So, we all kinda know that rifts form in places with a dark history like the Sorrel Weed House, where two people committed suicide, or the abandoned building where Ashlyn was born that I'm assuming is a school given that they're a very common spot for suicide. So we know death has something to do with rifts forming.
But what causes them to open? I have a theory that has like zero evidence but I feel like blood has something to do with it.
Essentially, I think that you need to spill some blood in order to open and close a rift once you're at the location. Emma bled during birth in the real world, which is when the rift opened. Then Mike got cut and started bleeding too in the shadow dimension so the rift closed.
Ashlyn got cut by the phantom in the shadow dimension before the rift closed too. So, given that Jasmine said she opened the rift to drag Ashlyn in, she probably cut her hand or something to do it.
Maybe because it was Ashlyn (who already had a special connection with the shadow dimension due to being born there) that closed the rift the second time that it didn't close properly and dragged the others in as well.
This is legit only based on these two pictures so I'm probably wrong but it's fun to theorize.
Me and my brother watched Pit Stop in Hatchetfield today and uh. I think we should talk about how there's a timeline where Paul and Emma end up in the Bastard's Box more.