The second thing Emily notices is that what's on the other side of the door is not Hank's lab.
"That's weird," she muses, stepping inside and looking around. Surely someone would have mentioned if they were remodeling? Surely she would have noticed it happening?
...Surely they wouldn't have installed a bar?
For lack of a better idea of what to do, she wanders up to the bar, still looking around to see if an explanation for this oddness will be readily apparent.
"This is strange," she murmurs, drumming her fingers on the bar.
A little girl in a red dress who looks like she might be eight or nine steps in.
"...Oh, hi! This is apparently a transdimensional bar, I was expecting somewhere else too."
"...I don't think so. It had better not be, that would mean the lab was gone too, and there was someone in there. Bar, the chapel isn't gone, is it?"
"No," shrieks the little girl, flinging herself bodily away from Emily and landing with a nasty-sounding thump on the floor. "No you have to stay back from me."
"...I don't think there are actually rudeness rules about it because there's only one of me."
"Why would people have to be away from you, though? ...I'm sorry, I'm being pushy, aren't I."
The little girl frowns. "Um, I'm the Ardelay prime, and if people get too close to me I read their minds and I can't stop. But - it's only a few feet so I don't have to go live by myself in the middle of nowhere or anything."
"...I can't stop," she repeats. "And I get all the thoughts, even if you didn't want me to see them and - and you have to stay back."
"I mean, if it bothers you then of course not. But--I mean, I've never heard of something called Ardelay prime, we're probably from different universes, it's not like you'd be able to use it against me if I accidentally thought of one of my deepest darkest secrets."
"The point isn't that I would - would tell other people the secrets, it's that I'm a person and I being a person could know the secrets even if I never did anything or told anyone, and I'd know all about how your mind works and - and everything." She swallows. "The - the last Ardelay prime might have done it like that or she might have had it different and we don't know. She might have just gone around, reading people's minds, all the time..."