A woman with purple skin sitting amid a stall of instricate glass sculptures, along with a not-insignificant selection of glass plugs and dildoes. 

The woman is staring right back at her, and she makes a small flurry of signs with both hands before she blinks and realizes —

"— Hey, do you speak english?" 

(Phee would be quite flustered and blushing if she noticed the selection of glass sex toys, but luckily she's too hyperfocused on her ?fellow worldhopper?)

After slightly startling at being addressed, she responds.

"H-hi! I do! Are you also from Earth?"

"Yeah, I am! — okay, I gotta make my local taxes in four days but this is important enough that I should close shop." 

Eva gestures to a deep rose pink half-sphere of smoky glass behind her. "Come into my stockroom and we can talk privately?"

Pretty! Phee will follow her into the stockroom. "Sure! Erm and if there's anything i could do later to make up for the lost tax progress from me prompting you to close up early I'd be happy to try and help?"

Eva comes into the stockroom and sits on a cardboad box full of trashy paperback romance novels.

"Ahhhh, that's a little hard because taxes here are in art or sex. But if you have a creative talent of some kind maybe."

Eva manages an uncertain smile. "I've been here for about a year, one third of my time here, one third of my time on earth, one third of my time in my stone cavern. I have a — problem with how I connect to other worlds, they want me to balance my time among them. And I still need medications from Earth. I just recently had to spend a bunch of time on earth apartment hunting which is not exactly easy when you are purple. It... didn't work out. On earth these days I mostly hang out in public parks and retreat to my cavern to sleep. Technically on paper I'm homeless. And because of that whole debacle I'm behind on my taxes here, which means I might get kicked out of the city and that's a whole other kettle of fish."

She shakes her head. "Sorry, I just... It's been almost a year and having someone I can finally talk to about my problems is really, really freeing. I didn't mean to dump that all on you." 

Eva takes a breath. "I still have a decent stack of romance novels, so if I can trade for artwork I won't have to pay in sex, which is... good. I'm still not really used to how oversexed this world is. But you probably have a lot of questions, yeah? Ask away."

Phee's brain : you should hug her.

Phee's social anxiety : I shouldn't hug a girl i just met without even asking!

Phee's mouth : "Would you like a hug?"

Phee's social anxiety : wait did you just say that out loud?

Phee's mouth : yes.

Phee's social anxiety : aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Trying to distract herself from how awkward she almost certainly just made things, Phee tries focusing on the rest of what was said :

"Ahhhh, that's a little hard because taxes here are in art or sex. But if you have a creative talent of some kind maybe."

Phee's horny : I've got no artistic talent to speak of, but I do have a rape kink at least, so if needs must you should feel free to sacrifice me to the Sex Collectors 

... That probably wouldn't be productive to say either.

I've been here for about a year, one third of my time here, one third of my time on earth, one third of my time in my stone cavern. I have a — problem with how I connect to other worlds, they want me to balance my time among them.

Phee is really glad she doesn't have that issue, it'd would've sucked so much to have to spend a sixth of her time in flesh world been moderately inconvenient to only be able to spend 4 hours a day on earth, needing to spend another 4 swimming in an eldritch ocean, and moderately inconveint to be stuck in a forest and empty cavern for similar amounts of time.

Eva gives Phee a small smile. 

"Yeah, I would like a hug. I mean, if you don't mind."

... She didn't completely alienate her by saying that?

Yay!

Phee returns smile and gives hug! (And tries her best to ignore that's she hugging cute girl, the way her tits (were they always so sensitive?) are being squished against the aforementioned cute girl because of hug, and the physiological reactions that will inevitably result if she thinks about them.)

"I'd be happy to! If I minded I wouldn't have offered!"

Eve hugs Phee gently and then slowly pulls away. "Thank you so much. I... really needed that."

She sighs. "Sorry, we're doing this all out of order. Uh — what's your name? I'm Eva. It's spelt with an E but said with an A — I might not have picked it if I'd known that'd happen, but..." 

She shakes her head.

Phee returns gentle hugs and lets Eva when she pulls away no matter tempting it'd be hug her closer. "You're w-welcome! I'm glad to have provided some comfort!"

"And it's nice to meet you Eva! I'm Phee. It's spelt with a Ph!"

"It's nice to meet you, Phee. Is that short for something?"

Small blush. "Y-yeah-ish? I got it from a shortening" and enfemmining "of Phoenix?"

"Awww! Mine's a short form of Evangeline. I really like those old fancy-style names."

"So, I'm sure you have a ton of questions. Please, ask away."

Blushy smile. "T-thanks! And neat and Evangeline is pretty too!" Just like you.

"And the first question that comes to mind was what was the most important thing you would've wanted to know before visiting here?

Is there anything about your powers you'd wanna share?

Are there any questions you wanna ask me?

This world is oversexed?

You could use romance novels to pay? Would it help if i bought more romance novels Earthside and brought them here? Wait they probably don't speak English here so that most likely wouldn't work, sorry for asking.

Is there anything that'd help make your cavern more comfortable I could smuggle in Earthside for you? Blankets? Pillows? Tolietries? sources of electricity? I don't actually know if there's any cheapish portable sources of it but I could at least check."

Phee's Cynicism : You shouldn't be willing to throw a bunch of resources at every girl in an unfortunate situation you come across, it'll quickly eat up all your slack and leave you penniless.

Phee's ??? : Counterpoint The first fellow inter dimensional traveler I come across is a valid single digit schelling point that won't leave me bankrupt!

Phee's Cynicism : Counter-counterpoint you don't actually care about her.

Phee's ??? : Counter-counter-counterpoint I'm gonna try and help her anyway.

Phee's Cynicism : ....

"Gosh, that's a lot of questions. Uh, let me see if I can get them all done more or less."

She takes a breath. 

"Firstly, literally everything in this world except for sand and stuff made directly out of sand is alive, smart, and horny. Even the plants. Even the fruit. Even the water you drink. Most things like water and fruit kink on being eaten and drunk and are parts of larger spirits, so it's possible to eat and drink ethically, but sex is so common here it's practically impossible to get anything done without fucking half-a-dozen random objects. I have to fuck people casually just as a matter of bartering my goods in the market." 

The corner of her mouth quirks up. "Fortunately all the food and water here is aphrodisiac, too, so as long as you're still physically able to keep going and emotionally in a decent headspace it's not too hard to muster up the energy, but, like, some days I just do not want to fuck six different people and or objects, some days I'm tired or sad or out of sorts or... you get the idea. I keep a supply of Earth food on hand for those days."

"As for my powers, my best one is the ability to borrow a little of the nature of erokami's — the local sentients — nature and bind it into objects. If I defeat them at sex. It comes up a lot more often then you'd think, they try a lot." 

She gestures to a small cluster of bracelets on her arm. "I'm trying to get together a cluster of particularly calm and clear-thinking Erokami bound to bracelets to help with replacing some of my Earth medications, but that's hard. Most of them are pretty lusty and emotionally sharp and that's not really what I need. It seems like water spirits are best for me, but they're separated by really long distances and even though I can teleport there's only so much exploration I've been able to do."

She crosses her arms. "I think I also mentioned the stone cave — I have an extradimensional apartment, basically. It's a bit low-tech but it's better than sleeping rough by a long shot."

"As for the romance novels, I'm working on translating a bunch of erotic novels to the local language but it's a bit of a hassle because the paper keeps having an orgasm in the middle of things, which means it wriggles and messes up my handwriting..."

"Uh, what was next... thanks for offering to bring me things. I'm managing alright in the cavern, it's really the other worlds that cause me trouble. I charge my phone using a solar charger here in the pink desert, or at cafés on earth. There's no network here to connect to, so... A lot of the utility is gone." She shrugs. 

"I think that's all?"

"Firstly, literally everything in this world except for sand and stuff made directly out of sand is alive, smart, and horny. Even the plants. Even the fruit. Even the water you drink. 

[extremely horrified not yet bird noises]

but, like, some days I just do not want to fuck six different people and or objects, some days I'm tired or sad or out of sorts or... you get the idea. I keep a supply of Earth food on hand for those days."

Phee is going to hug the Eva again unless she seems to object to that.

It seems like water spirits are best for me, but they're separated by really long distances and even though I can teleport there's only so much exploration I've been able to do."

Phee's powers are now giving her intrusive thoughts of unreasonable erotic visions of Eva claiming and drinking her water, which is leaving her very very blushy.

"As for the romance novels, I'm working on translating a bunch of erotic novels to the local language but it's a bit of a hassle because the paper keeps having an orgasm in the middle of things, which means it wriggles and messes up my handwriting..."

"Would smuggling non orgasmic paper in from earth help at all with your translation efforts, or is there a constant risk of objects gaining sentience here?"

"Also um if you'd like to hear about my own powers I could I share too? Though I only actually realized I have powers earlier today and so most of what i know about mine is just imperfect conjecture based off trying to introspect and get the powers to tell me what they are, but with that disclaimer out of the way I've got a connection with si-five worlds which lets me sense where the nearest places they intersect with the world i'm in are.

I'm able to, with a few minutes effort cross over between the points where they intersect. Alternatively I can sorta just send my vision without my body across to see what's on the other side?

I've also got an extradimensional space but it's more like a small cave that's no tech aside from being smooth and dust free then a low-tech apartment.

I'm probably able to breathe water now and probably have improved swimming ability, but I haven't tested either yet.

I'm probably better at learning languages now.

I'm now a plant, um wait I mean I'm now like a plant, in that i can survive off of sunlight, I think.

Probably one of my powers is making me prettier? I initially thought that was just the estrogen but after ?looking? at my powers it feels like one of them is responsible.

I have some kind of shapeshifty power but I couldn't figure out what it is beyond that it required visiting this world, but now that I'm here it feels like it might be of a similar kind of thing as the drawing power from erokami ability you mentioned?

I've also got the amazing power of infertility now!

And for the last two powers i know about one feels like i need to d-drink some of the water from this world to use? And the other err um uh..."

Phee is blushing intensely, also incidentally Eva might have noticed by now that there's a puddle of water forming by Phee's feet.

Eva smiles and hugs Phee back.

"Infertility is such a great power. I wouldn't have been able to survive here without some serious issues without it. My cave is better than yours I think — mine can make liquids, minerals and grow plants, which has been a huge help with my diet. It's basically a three room apartment with a garden area. Kitchen, bathroom, bedroom. I think I'm faster at bridging than you, too." 

She rubs the back of her head. "So you're trans too? I had to get my femininity from a bunch of local Erokami, but I got there eventually." 

And she nods. "Yeah, I've run out of paper from Earth to write on. I, uh... Someone got... fluids... on my stock and I haven't been able to replace it yet." She rubs the back of her head awkwardly.

Hugging intensifies!

"It really is! I haven't actually gotten to use it yet, but I'm certain that not needing to worry about accidentally kids is gonna be great!"

"And it's cool that your cave can do all that! And now I'm curious how quickly you can bridge? And whether you were originally slower at it or if you were always able to do it at roughly the same speed once you figured out how to bridge at all?"

Blushnod, then uncertain shrug at being asked bout tranness. "Yeah! Or well at least like if you modeled me that way you wouldn't make incorrect predictions if that makes any sense?"

Phee is completely oblivious to Eva letting slip that she was the one who got fluids on her stock and responds. "Oh no, that sucks" and not even in a fun way "I could get you some new stock of paper the next time I'm earthside?"

"Uh, it only takes me a few seconds at most. And I can do it from basically wherever I am in the world, though I didn't figure that out for a few months. It's more a matter of letting go and going for me than a matter of doing it deliberately - it's like I'm strained between Earth, the cavern and here. Here is Pink Desert by the way, the locals just call it that in their language, which is sign." 

She smiles. "As for paper, I'd really appreciate that. Right now my balance is naturally towards Pink Desert so I have to stay for a while to catch up. I won't be able to go back to earth for another ten days or so."