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[campanas]

Here, in a place where she is quite an unexpected sight, is:

an eight year old girl with brown-flecked white wings, looking dismayed and lost.

with Prime (Aestrix)

with Edie and Emily (Maggie)

with Gloria (Maggie)

with Gren (Rockeye)

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[alicornucopia]

Thank you, the bar replies. She continues with a well-ordered summary of the habitual functions of the door, herself, and multidimensionality as viewed from an ever-stationary position inside Milliways such as is her limitation.

[whatamithinking]

'That's amazing.'
And to Emily:
'I definitely can't sense any mind behind the door mechanism. Whoever determines who gets doors and when, they're not here in any way I can tell.'

[iamnotpolaris]

'It was worth checking.'

[alicornucopia]

The bar does not, of course, eavesdrop on sisterly conversation.

[thaumobabble]

The back door opens. "Edie and Emily?" inquires someone who looks like she could be related to Pen. She is wearing witchy robes and a crown and somehow-seems-like she has a ludicrous amount of magical power and ought to live in a forest.

[whatamithinking]

"That's be us, yeah," Edie says. "I'm Edie Lehnscherr, she's Emily Xavier."

[thaumobabble]

"I'm Isabella Swan, but when there's a dozen of us named that or similar around I'm Glass, which you may call me. Pen apparently had a little adventure?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"She showed up looking like a minority my sister and I belong to in an area where that minority was, shall we say, unpopular. I pulled some thugs off of her and she's been staying with us since."

[whatamithinking]

"We're mutants," Edie added. "Pens says that you're in contact with one universe where our kind exists...?"

[thaumobabble]

"Yes. What year is it in yours?"

[whatamithinking]

"Nineteen eighty."

[thaumobabble]

"That's about two hundred years earlier than Peace's current year, but may be otherwise very similar. Would you mind holding the door for me while I have a peek?"

[whatamithinking]

"Sure, no problem."

[thaumobabble]

Glass looks at the world. "It's not quite Peace, but it's closely related. The mutant-related stuff should be roughly alike but I currently don't expect you to suffer an alien invasion - worth checking, but after someone with a more dedicated interest in the place is handling it instead of my first-pass. I can see certain properties of worlds and people by looking," she elaborates.

[whatamithinking]

"Really? What can you see about me?"

[thaumobabble]

"Well, for one thing, you are both of you a type of person I've never seen before - unfortunately I can't even begin to guess what that signifies; we've been referring to existing types as 'green' and 'purple' simply because we have no other traits besides the fact that I can sort them to go on. You're neither. You two are attached; there will never be a world that has only one of you and not the other. Your powers, like those in Peace, are technically not magic as far as my aura is concerned."

[whatamithinking]

"...Huh. I mean, I had imagined scenarios in our own world where we didn't grow up together, but the idea of one of us just not existing somehow never occurred to me. I'm glad it's not a thing, anyway. Not sure what to make of the fact that apparently we're some kind of special snowflake."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Well, you do refer to yourself as, 'not a normal example of anything," Emily points out.

[whatamithinking]

"Generally I'm not. And I'm not usually a normal example, but I am an example."

[thaumobabble]

"It might be that this third moiety - pick a color, if you like - is just very common on your world and rare elsewhere. Incidence rates between green and purple are known to vary world to world. Aurum's almost entirely green if you only count natives, for instance. And run in families - two green parents will have green children, mixed parents tend to alternate in available samples."

[whatamithinking]

"Um...white, I guess. Do you want to look at more people from our world? And, um. Pen said that resurrection was a thing?"

[thaumobabble]

"I can look at some more people, yes. And we can add your world to the available resurrection pool in one of two ways - bother the admin, which we try to hold down to a minimum, or make anybody from your world immortal."

[whatamithinking]

"...I will happily take immortality! Is that a thing you can do, how hard is it, actually can you make everyone I love immortal?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"How hard is it? Is there any kind of bottleneck?"

[thaumobabble]

"I can make more or less arbitrary numbers of people immortal but I want to be thoughtful about how I do it, both because it can be conspicuous and dangerous, because it would give anyone who had it a major tactical advantage and I don't necessarily know how you're likely to use that, and because me or someone else on the short list of people with torching distribution has to do it. You don't have a Bell, or I'd just hand this off to her. Bare minimum I want to leave a Janegem in your world."