"It was great - also what is going on with you being from another dimension." 

"Our Earth has unexplained portals to other planets or possibly other dimensions, not sure which, could be some of both. He and I fell through one and weren't slated, as of my getting in telepathic contact with my twin brother, to be rescued for months, and the planet was - habitable but not super safe. Then a four dimensional dungeon with a lot of portals within itself also had a portal to the planet we were on. Cricket, the 4D cat, spotted us and tagged us with an esper power that let that esper retrieve us; it seemed a better bet on the survival front than camping out on the chillo planet eating raw fish and banana-like things for weeks and weeks more."

"Ooooh, lots of portals! I want to explore lots of unexplained portals. What's up with the rest of your dimension - you have espers and dungeons in addition to the portals?"

"No, we don't have espers or dungeons. We have eclipsed, who have been around throughout human existence but were mostly too dangerous to allow to live until relatively recently in historical terms. There's psions and mages, we're both psions - that means we do things that don't have physical effects," [like this].

"Oh, that's cool!"

"Thanks. I'm working on getting it to reach my brother, again, it only took me a few days to extend my range from the chillo planet but I'm cut off again so that's some more I need to do."

"How do you do that?"

"Practice and also just thinking about how I want the power to work."

"Oh neat - we can figure out new tricks but not do entirely new things like make powers cross into dungeons when they can't otherwise. I'm jealous."

"It's pretty cool but the leadtime's wretched."

"Ah, we just get the one shit week and then we're ready to go."

"It does sound like an impressively shit week! Our thing is less shit but takes a couple years."

"I'd definitely take the week over that."

"Probably opinions vary. Person to person and hypothetical or actual backlash to backlash."

"Yeah, I'm on the friendlier side with my backlash. I mean - I don't like it at all - but it's very very worth having powers even a bit sooner."

"Is it public? It's weird how you're all different. Eclipsed universally run on calories." Which is why there are so many snacks in the hotel. She opens a bag of Cheetos. Tips them toward Venture in case she wants some.

Cheetos! Followed by a handstand cause why not.

"Not public but I don't mind - my proprioception and stuff gets way more salient so I can feel like my stomach and fingernails against my skin and shit like that that you can normally a feel a bit but you don't need to pay attention to any."

"Huh. Yeah, I agree that that sounds annoying but not the sort of thing I'd trivially take two years in virtuality to skip for a week."

"Yeah, I'm lucky. Plus I really really like my powers."

"Some sort of healing thing?"

"I heal, I'm more durable and I can push my body farther than I could before I got powers."