I'm sorry.

If you want to send me back it's okay. I'll go.

I don't want that, and even if I did it wouldn't matter what I want, just what you want.

I don't want to hurt anyone.

You didn't.

The top half of the next note is a drawing, of some sort of... compound; long halls lined with rooms, arranged in squares. Most of the rooms are labeled with names and numbers, one or two pairs on each, girls' names on some halls and boys' on others, with none of the numbers smaller than four or larger than seventeen. Other rooms are labeled 'nurse's station' or 'drug room' or 'cafeteria' or 'group room' or similar things. One of the rooms is marked with a blue star and labeled 'me' and 'Emily (10)'; there's a line leading from it, through two doors labeled with four-digit numbers and one just labeled 'push', to the outside of the building.

This is how I escaped, it says underneath.

I used to have a superpower, but it stopped working when I came here.

That's more organized than the place where I was. It wasn't hard to get a little bit away, except when they had you chained down, but it was impossible to get very far and they'd punish you for trying.

Yeah, same.

I don't know what they would have done if they'd known about my power but I know they would have stopped me.

I'm glad they couldn't.

New York was nice.

I wanted to go back and try to get the other kids out, once I'd figured out how to take care of everybody well enough. And there's a picture of a room, with institutional white-painted cinderblock walls, a simple metal-framed bed and chair, and a plain white dresser with a whiteboard and calendar hung over it.

Maybe we can do that now.

I hope so. I don't think I can by myself without my power.

It might go back if you go back into your world.

It might be better if it doesn't. It hurts a lot when it stops working.

Okay, that's good to know. We could ask the Valar if they can do anything to make it come back, too.

Maybe.

It would help

I'll ask if they can do it.

Thank you.

And a while later - 

they're not sure, but they think maybe.

Okay.

If they think it might hurt me if they try and it doesn't work, I'd rather they not try.

I'll ask how sure they are they could reverse whatever they'd do.

Okay. And she draws her a map of the United States - a rough sketch, really - and tells her a little bit about its geography, and where New York is and where the portal will be if it's near where she was transported from.

Thanks. Everyone's very excited about contact with another world.

Valar are pretty sure they could reverse what they did if it made you worse.

If it's very bad I probably won't be able to tell you.

We can hear your thoughts, remember.

Okay.

She spends the next few days mostly hanging out in the basement, where if something strange happens to her senses she'll at least be less overwhelmed.