"It is quite evident that you are not in a glass box. Until you arrived, no one here had met a real angel. Incidentally, should I be reconsidering my religious beliefs in light of this new information?"

"Dunno if there gods here. No one doing checking," she shrugs.

"...How on Earth would you check for that?"

"Magic? But most places not have any real gods."

"I wasn't aware magic existed."

"Sure magic exist. She do a magic with metal things," says Pen, pointing at Emily. "Unless is a technology? But looked a magic."

"It's her mutation. Mutants have been mistaken for magic many times, it's a completely biological phenomenon."

"Oh!" Pen snaps her fingers. "Like in Peace. Lots like magic but not."

"...Peace?"

"Is a world. One where Jane from!"

"And who is Jane?"

"Jane sort of sisteroid but not really. She a computer person and her daddy a one Daddy and her mommy a one Mommy, but she not a one Dars. Dars is purple and Jane green, Glass says."

"Dars is your sister, then? And you're saying that Jane's mother and father are...some kind of alternate universe duplicates of your parents? I confess, I have no idea what you mean by purple and green."

"Dars one sister, then Keziah then Ariel then me. And yes, and, nobody knows neither not even Glass but she say so anyway and people being all one template also all same color."

"So if you're from another universe, as you seem to be claiming, how did you get here?"

"Broken door! It supposed going here from nice bar but goed here instead. And did not go back bar when opened again after notice, but of course, never do, doors don't like me like they liking Shell Bell or Princess Elspeth."

"I have to admit, this is being more confusing than it's not. I'm a telepath. Is whatever's causing your mind to seem blank under your control at all?"

"Um? Oh. Am safed from things," Pen says. "Can let stuff like Sue. Sue even a mutant, can do like him or only do other kinds telepathing? Am sorry about the grammar but can't help."

"I think what's confusing me is what you're saying more than how you're saying it. You appear to be coming from a completely different cultural context, so of course there are things that would seem obvious to you that get left out of your explanation. And I don't know what exactly Sue can do. If it were under your control, and you could let me--or one of the students with telepahic ability, if that were more comfortable--in, briefly, it would be possible to glean a summary of your cultural background without touching your personal memories."

"Am eight, cannot just 'let in' things, what if some bad thing go with it? Only can let specific stuff. Sue, the one naked one Daddy saying name by magic, illusions, things. Cannot just say 'okay person do whatever' in case picking wrong person. Especially most mind stuff. If letting in bad thing for other wards just torch. If letting in bad thing for mind stuff maybe harder fix."

"Entirely reasonable. I apologize. So there's some kind of...bar? And it has a door that deposits people in different universes?"

"Takes people from wherever," nods Pen, "usually put them back where getting them, but door break."

"I see. So besides this door, is there any way for you to get home?"

"If was any Jane here Jane put me back, pop, right on Jovah. Isn't though, checked. If a one Mommy here she bring a Janegem do same thing, or Shell Bell can doors whenever wanting. Jarvises also can doors if knowing how but a Jarvis finded here maybe not know how. Isn't one, anyway, checked. If a one Daddy find me he do freecast while Sue linking and bring some Jane to put me home. Or maybe there a mutant who can do thing, dunno what all kinds."

"So far, we haven't found anyone who can traverse different universes," he said. "What exactly is a Janegem? Is it something to do with Jane's mutation?"