Evra turns to see a woman walk into the bar. Her clothes are unlike any he's seen in his world.

"Well isn't this cunning," she remarks, looking around. "Hullo there."

"Hello," he says. "And you are?"

"I'm Cayra. You?"

"Evra." He waves a hand in the air. "Do you know what all this is?"

"Well, it looks like somebody built a bar right up against the wall of an alucine," says Cayra. "The window's seriously weird, though, that I can't explain."

Evra raises an eyebrow. "Alucine?"

"A-lu-cine," she repeats slowly and clearly.

"I don't know what that is," Evra admits.

Evra hums and sets his glass of wine down. "I'm not from your world."

"Apparently not. Um, but how did you get here?"

He nods at the door. "The same way you did." Assuming, of course, that was the only way into the bar.

"That's... strange." She goes over to the door and peeks out. There is a little low-tech village outside. "That's exactly where I came in from. Which, incidentally, is in an alucine."

"What is an alucine, anyway?"

"A place where there is stuff. Do you maybe just have a different word for them, or come from a really, really big one...?"

How helpful. "Could you be more specific?"

"I would but I'm trying to imagine what you could possibly have instead of alucines and I'm really low on ideas. An alucine is an... area. With edges. Linked to other alucines by portals."

"Physical portals, like doorways? Or shortcuts through space?"

"Well, when I said this was cunning what I meant was that it was clever to have a door over a portal. But... the second thing. I think. That's a really weird way to put it, 'through space', portals are more of a between alucines thing than a within alucines thing. I'm not actually sure off the top of my head if you can make one that shortcuts through space."

Interesting. "How big are your alucines, on average?"

"Like, average average, or typical, or average inhabited, or typical inhabited?"

Evra shrugs. "All of the above, I suppose."

"I don't have exact figures. Your standard inhabited alucine will have, like, two towns and a swath of farm, or a big city. They come in very small - too small for some people to fit into all the way - and in very large - several continents and oceans - but there's more tiny ones than big ones, the big ones are just more interesting."