"Yeah, but I'm curious now." She pulls out a notebook and writes this down.

"Fair enough. So--you didn't seem terribly surprised that I have two fathers, is that something your magic does?"

"...No? I assumed at least one of them adopted you or failing that it was a science thing."

"Science thing. Ish. Mutant thing, specifically. I was just curious, since--magic."

"Nah. I assume if it were doable without unsafe levels of experimentation some elves would have figured it out before now."

"Makes sense. We were a complete accident, which is why I hesitate to label it a science thing."

"Science doesn't have accidents?"

"Science does have accidents, but I'm having trouble imagining an experiment that would produce babies by accident when it was trying to do something else."

"I wouldn't know."

"It's massively unlikely. Babies are complicated."

"Are they really?"

"Well--even fully-grown humans need a certain set of things to survive. Food, air, the right temperature so you don't freeze or roast. Childrens' needs are more finicky than that, and a baby that hasn't even been born yet has really extremely specific needs that are really hard to meet outside of a uterus. Having a completely unrelated experiment produce those exact conditions would be a hell of a coincidence."

"Oh, I see."

"I think I'm going to try the door again," she says after a moment, and gets up and walks toward the door.

No dice.

"It is pretty cozy. I wonder if the door will let me by." She goes up to the door. The door continues existing. She opens it; it is a dorm hallway. She closes it. "I'll stay and keep you company for a while though."

"Thanks, I appreciate it. Hm...the bar apparently sells arbitrary objects, is there something from home you'd like that's difficult to get where you are? That wouldn't be science."

"I don't exactly have a ton of money but I'm set for material comforts. I have a nice dorm room and I don't care much about clothes and I have boots that help me not fall over and the school library's great. That said, I am considering breaking a minor import regulation to go home with a case of foreign chocolate to covertly resell to hallmates."

"Chocolate's nice, there was some in the drink Bar recommended for me."

"My milkshake didn't have any, but chocolate is great and we have it in my world, so it's not all bad."

"Yeah. Your world sounds liveable, just annoying, or I'd be working harder to try to work something out evacuationwise."

"I'm not sure if anything with stomping feet would get mad about evacuating the world but it seems likely."

"Evacuating the entire world? Sure. Picking up a few people and spiriting them away? I can't imagine it's likely that a cosmic force that let you find Milliways in the first place would be mad about someone coming in and trying to persuade a few of your dormmates to move out."

"Yeah, probably."