[I'm not consistently in any single lab, I just visit for a few days. I assume it would be overstepping to get myself a lab coat under those circumstances.]

[I guess I wouldn't know.]

Lucien is happy to keep chatting but eventually the break is over and they are headed out to go spelunking towards the portal.

The precog walks with a cane and will require some help over tricky sections of cave.

Lucien can be helpful!

[Thanks, I always had bad balance and virtuality did terrible things to it from there.]

Nod nod.

[I'm happy to help.]

The portal doesn't look like anything.

She slips on a steep part -

Lucien can hel-okay wow this actually for real steep-

She flings out her cane trying to catch a stalagmite but this doesn't work at all.

As the cane hits Lucien instead and sends him tumbling into the portal, his arm still locked with Isabella's for support. 

It turns out that the portal looks like nothing only from one side, and from the other side it looks like dense forest canopy rushing up to meet them.

"AAAAAUGH!"

"AAAAAH-"  Lucien is interrupted by leaves and twigs smacking into his face, and then - after a brief interval of thin branches bending underneath his weight - the ground.

Isabella tried "learning to fall". It didn't work, because she doesn't have the reaction time, but she learned the principle: hit the ground on purpose, to absorb some of the force that would otherwise go into hitting it accidentally. She has long enough to think on the way down to try it.

Things don't go exactly as planned and Isabella manages to miss the ground entirely, landing on Lucien instead. 

"Ow."

"Sorry." Do all her limbs work.

Yes! She has some scratches from twigs but nothing serious. Lucien is also relatively uninjured, though his stomach is a bit sore from landing on it. 

"Ugh, are you okay?"

"Scratched, bruised, alarmed, nothing life-threatening."

"The same, I think."

"...we shouldn't use magic for anything, we don't have food on us and they'll probably retrieve us soon."

"I do have some sour skittles on me, but nothing else."

Lucien glances around the forest which seems almost tropical - the trees might be a normal type of palm tree from Earth, though he's never heard of a variety that has branches like these do. Temperature wise it's hot but much less humid than where they came from, so that's a plus.

"Nobody was able to go through before..."

"Yeah - I think some of the prior portals had filters on who can get through?"