wisps

noun / wisps / wisp / wisping / wisped / wispy

(Seeing) barely discernable thing or group of things that twist

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes — characters even — caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.

Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale)