Cool.

May has been really helpful, she appreciates it.

"You're welcome! Maybe one day I will be able to visit your world and you can pay me back by showing me around."

That would be good. It really is mostly the same but they won't have Thaumatology churches here and those are so pretty.

"There are some pretty churches, but we don't have that denomination."

Yeah, Thaumatology is - she's been keeping this a little bit secret, but the thing that determines how much magic she has and how good it is is how pretty she is. Which is a little weird, but all magical girls work that way, and some of them think that the thing that decides how pretty they are is a goddess. She's not sure, the rest of the world doesn't seem like it was made by someone who cares a lot about how pretty things are, but there definitely is something deciding it, it's not just what she thinks looks good. And Thaumatology is the church for that goddess, so of course they're as pretty as they can be.

"That's interesting. There's nothing like that here - there's magic but it's pretty mechanistic except for natural language interpretation, which I don't think requires a deity to explain."

Yeah. Magical girls are the only thing she's heard of that really sounds like there might be a god behind it.

Do critters tend to be Christian or anything?

"Some of them are, there's a nondenominational church, but there's not an overwhelming skew or anything."

That's good. People can be weird about it when they think their religion is the only real one.

"I find that most religious people think that."

Yeah. But it's better, at least, when they know other people who believe other things just as much. They'll think they're wrong but they won't think they don't exist and they won't be as upset when they meet someone who believes another different thing.

"Are there people in your world who believe that they belong to the only religion on the planet?"

Not - exactly? But Christians are common enough that a lot of them don't know anybody who isn't, and it does surprise them to find out someone's not, and they aren't always good about it.

"Fair enough. Does your world have the same countries as here?"

She hasn't had a chance to check yet. United States Canada Mexico Panama?

"Yes."

Where is she, anyway, she hasn't had a chance to ask.

"Toronto Canada."

Explains the cold. She's from Massachusetts, maybe half an hour's flight from Boston.

"I'd offer to get you there but there wouldn't be as much point. At least we speak English here, huh?"

Yep. Her telepathy works fine on people who don't but she'd still be in some trouble if she couldn't understand anyone.

"You'd have to guess and check a whole lot, yeah, and it would have been harder for somebody to whisk you away into an Avalon."

She probably would have ended up getting shot, and then who knows what would have happened.

"It'd depend where you landed. Most of the world is ocean, for one thing, could you shift enough to live in the ocean for a while?"

- probably. Maybe not well, though, she'd be real nervous about doing gills and a mermaid tail at the same time.