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No kidding...

Have you been to other worlds?

[Would it be safe to guess that he has?]

[Siebren smiled.]

No, not really. Not yet. Just the moon...and a black hole.

I would like to see them in my lifetime, though.

[She blinks in surprise.] Really? Aren't black holes like space vacuums? What was that like? Was it dangerous?

[She can't picture herself having a good time while being sucked into a black hole, or a worm hole.]

I've been to a few worlds, and have kept myself safe in this interdimensional building for about a week. Someone eventually helped me get back home.

[She doesn't have to worry about being apart from her parents and some close friends anymore. She knows how to go back on her own now.]

Oh yes, extremely. It permanently altered my physiology.

[He raised his hand and waved it lightly. The pen in the breast pocket of his lab coat floated up in front of him and hovered there for a moment before it floated back to its pocket.]

Luckily, I have gotten the hang of it. But it was not a pleasant experience and ah, I would not recommend it.

[He brightens at her mention of being to other worlds...and an inter dimensional building.]

Fascinating! What worlds have you been to?

[She watches in both surprise and fascination at the trick he can do with his pen.]

Huh. How are you able to do that?

[How curious! From there, she can be a little open about her fairly recent experiences.]

I've been to some worlds that are very similar to the Earth ones. There's many Earths, by the way.

[She gets out the mobile shaped object, and quickly scrolls down the reeeeeally long list of world names. There's a section with black bars over a number of Earths, with code names attached to them.]

I haven't read all their descriptions, but there's definitely hundreds.

[She lowers the device after showing him.] I liked the Hundred Acre Wood for a time, until something made Pooh-Bear...homicidal. I don't know why, and I probably don't want to know. I survived, and Pooh's back to normal--but I can never go back.

[There's a bit of a shiver when mentioning about all this. She's mostly over it, as long as she doesn't think more than a bit on the memory.

She'll mention a more positive experience now.]

I like the multiverse place. There's a large food court, a floor for various support groups, and places to sleep. Many different floors, actually, but I don't have time to go to them all.

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You know? I am really not sure. Whatever happened enabled me to exert control over gravity surrounding myself and objects around me.

[He smiled.]

It is great fun at parties...or it would be if I went to any parties.

[He nodded at her explanation. There were theories that postulated about the existence of alternate realities. He could have sworn he caught a glimpse of them now and again.]

Fascinating! What a remarkable device.

[He watched her scroll, noting the many, many worlds.]

Hundred Acre Wood? Like in the book? How interesting. I have often wondered if books were the literal glimpses into other worlds the authors had.

Wus'a yooneeverse?

[It's not in his common dictionary.]

What is the universe? Why, my friend, it is everything. It is all space and time and everything within it.

Huh? Naw.

[He likes your funny words, science man, but he doesn't believe you.]

I ain't a yooniverse.

[A pause.]

Are yoo?

[She laughs a bit.] Maybe you could try and see what happens. Or start your own "magic show".

You could easily make a career out of that gravity talent of yours!

[One of her eyebrows raises curiously. He must be familiar with the stories of Pooh-Bear and friends...] It might be surprising for you to find out how many other fictional mediums turn out be based on, or around truth.