Time to wake up

[seat_five_girl]

The sun is shining. The grass is green.

It shouldn't be.

At Milliways and at Mahora her door is indoors.

The light should come from electric lights, the floor should be wood or tile.

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[seat_five_girl]

"No. Originally I'm from one of the Earths," offers Ako, "You get a lot of dimensional travel here?"

[not_my_sandbox]

"Earth... Terra? No, you said one of the Earths. Oh gods, don't tell me Milliways has to deal with multiple versions of the same reality." One version of several different realities is trouble enough.

Wait...

"Probably, a long time ago, we had a lot of travelers, but then us fairies started settling permanently here. But it's hard to live in peace if you live in an inter-dimensional nexus, so we try to route most travel through unused planes. That was way before my time before we got that working, though. It has probably been a very long time since a human has been in Zanaris."

"But we don't get much travel requests from or to Milliways though; we mostly just get beer, wine, rum, food, and magic routing requests. Occasionally a price check on various markets too. We got a request for the exchange rate on bottle caps once. I think that was a mistake since I have never heard of anyone using that as a currency." Either that or *GASP* there are other inter-dimensional hubs other than Milliways and Zanaris. At least ones that aren't as messed up as Xen.

The toolbox Fairy Fixit is carrying then starts buzzing, giving her a jolt. After a surprised exclamation she lands on the ground, sets the toolbox down, and opens it up.

Is that a fairy sized cell phone?

After giving the buzzing thing a confused look, she fumbles around with it and then finally manages to open it. The noises coming from it finally convince her to put it up to her ear. "Hello?"

Being that she is on the ground and how much taller Ako is than her, it is amazing how far the tiny fairy's voice can carry. "I don't think you want to go back to Milliways," she says, looking up at Ako.

[seat_five_girl]

Small body's can have tremendous projection abilities when it some to the voice.

"Oh. Um, how. How bad is it?"

[not_my_sandbox]

"A black hole, two planet devourers, what feels like a really angry god of destruction, magic storms, a demonic invasion, tears in reality, and a chance of nonexistence. And I mean erased from history nonexistence."

"Gosh, it is almost like someone has been using really powerful rune magic without using flattening spells. I would say that it is about to by bulldozed into another abyss if it weren't for it's location. The whole nonexistence thing is going to be a moot point anyway, eventually."

[seat_five_girl]

"Oh. Um."



"What now?"

[not_my_sandbox]

The tiny cell phone disappears. The fairy is startled by it, but she carries on with the conversation.

"We could try sending you back to your Earth, but that might be harder than finding the thread that connected you to Milliways. I don't think you would like to be sent to the wrong Earth." The wrong Earth. It sounds … wrong. "Or… we could keep an eye on Milliways, but, well, that requires some scary... well, we would be looking way into the future and not a very pleasant future at that. Just that little glimpse we took to find out what is going on is going to cost us..." slight grimace, "I don't know how much."

"In the mean time, we can let you stay here. I just hope we don't get more refugees. We are a bit short on houses your size."

[seat_five_girl]

It wouldn't be disastrous necessarily. Ako might know someone who knows a mad scientist or a mage or something, but...

"Being on the wrong Earth would be tricky, yeah," agrees Ako, "And I'll be happy to help out with anything if you someone lets me know what I should do."