I'm sure it does, and I would prefer to understand those rules. It's better to act with knowledge. But I don't know that whatever this is will allow us the time.

[He just wants some control over his own circumstances. He's chosen this place, for now, so he can't have it collapsing on him or finding himself torn out of it. Those cracks can just disappear.

...which they do, at least visually, because he's thinking about it. An illusion of a normal sky.]