"You can make fun of me if you want."

"But how could I possibly make fun of you when you are so incredibly good????"

"Lev manages."

"Lev is clearly far more powerful than I." Hug.

"He is skilled in mockery!"

"Aaaa." She smushes her face on his shoulder. "I think I might like you more than I have ever liked anyone in my life. IT IS HARD TO MAKE FUN OF SOMEONE UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES."

"That's moderately inconvenient because we live in different dimensions! And the obvious way of getting a me will not solve your problem!"

"IT SUPER WILL NOT OH MY GOD."

"I guess it depends on how attached you are to your home dimension."

"Mmmmoderately? It, like, probably needs me, I'm a superhero and stuff. Maybe we should invent interdimensional transit. I mean we kind of just found interdimensional transit but it is not super under our control, it wouldn't let me leave when I was freaking out about meeting Toni."

"My home universe has interdimensional transit, but humans don't know how to use it, at least not reliably."

"...I mean, are you a Stark or what? Let's fix that."

(OH NO SHE WAS A TINY BIT MEAN TO HIM WHAT IF EVERYTHING BECOMES TERRIBLE FOREVER)

He laughs. "I like you."

Oh. Everything is NOT terrible forever. Good. This is good.

He kisses her. "But that's not really a short-term solution. I have to go back to my world to figure out how to reverse engineer dimensional travel."

"Hmmmmmm." She bounces on her toes a little, thinking to herself.

Then she turns to the bar. "Hey you! If you sell magic alien drinks, do you also sell magic alien secrets?"

I sell all books published in any universe, Bar napkins.

"Yeah, I'm going to need to get the current book list from Lev," Asher says. "Which I guess is going to have 'dimensional travel blueprints' on it now."

"I might just sit here and read about dimensional travel for a week straight, I'm not needed at home like super urgently or anything."

"Time is paused in your universe while you're here, and I was sort of hoping there was something else we could do for a week straight."

WELL NOW SHE IS BLUSHING A WHOLE LOT THANKS.

She's really cute when she blushes. He kisses her.

Coincidentally, she turns out to ALSO be really cute when she is BEING KISSED! Who could have foreseen this outcome?

Asher could have made some clever predictions.

Meanwhile, Toni is getting VERY DRUNK.

Tanya has temporarily forgotten about Toni. There is all this Asher to hug. It's really a lot.

"Um," she says, blushing, "is there—I mean, we're in a bar—I don't think bars usually have—"

Wow, trying to talk about sex in Real Tanya Voice is TERRIBLE. But she cannot seem to access Bitchy Tanya Voice. Bitchy Tanya is down for maintenance.