It's hard to type and walk at the same time; she doesn't respond immediately.

September kind of starts chattering on her own about the first time she visited Fairyland, which was at the time ruled by an evil Marquess who was trying to make Fairyland safe and nice for visitors, but in the process kind of being a really big jerk. She met A-Through-L, a wyverary - the son of a wyvern and a library, or so he claimed - and Saturday, a marid, and Gleam, an intelligent lamp, and they had adventures all through Fairyland, and September ended up trapping the Marquess in an enchanted sleep, but then she got yanked home so she doesn't know what happened next...

They get to the sitting area; Denice takes her phone out again and taps at it. "Your earth doesn't have capes and my earth doesn't have fairyland and I don't know what that means."

"We also don't have things like that talking thing you're using, at least not that small, though I guess some radios are similar. I haven't heard of multiple Earths, even in stories, but I think some of Fairyland was weirder, so... It's not the type of thing I can't believe? Especially since Fairyland in stories sometimes does weird things with time, and you enter and when you leave it's a hundred years later - time didn't pass back home, for me, while I was in Fairyland, but I wouldn't be too surprised to run into a medieval knight or someone from the future or an alien there."

Huh.

"Maybe I'm from the future. We didn't always have capes."

"What year's it there? It's 1943, where I'm from."

"Two thousand and eight."

"Huh! Capes are kind of a weird thing, for the future to have..."

She's got a copy of wikipedia stored on her phone; she navigates to the 'history' section of the parahumans article and lets it read the first paragraph, about how Scion appeared in early 1982 and other parahumans started to trigger soon after. "Parahumans are capes," she has the phone explain afterward.

"Weird." She frowns. "I actually hope you're not from my future... A lot of that doesn't sound nice, and I dunno if I'd be able to go back to my time if you were..."

"I don't know."

"I thought this was some cape's pocket world but I think it's too weird for that. I don't know what it is."

"You could ask the people who live here."

"Yeah, might try that. See what they know and all before I start exploring."

She nods.

"It's kind of a long walk, but we can start now if you want to."

"I'm fine with long walks! And wasn't tired at all when I got pulled through."

"Okay." "Tell me if you want to stop or you get hungry or anything." She puts her backpack back on and leads the way.

September gets hungry after about an hour, though she seems to be enjoying the walk and isn't particularly tired. She's also counting shelves they pass, looking for organizational cues.

They can stop and get a snack, then; Rescue listens for two and gives the other girl first choice of them.

"Thanks," September says, settling in with the one more foreign to her. "How long have you been here?"

"A few days."

She nods. "How much have you explored?"

"I can hear things for a long way, I don't really need to go see it." "A little, though."

"Huh! I'd probably want to see things anyways..." She shrugs. "Do you know if there's any sort of order to what books are where?"

"Not really." "Different places are differently old, old places have old books." "And books on the same stuff are together usually."

"Is it all - like, human books? Are there cool future books?"

"All human so far and I haven't seen anything from my future." "There are computers, those are like future books."