[Well, maybe he got caught up since the time travel but hasn't grown out his hair? I probably wouldn't grow out my hair even if I moved to China.] "Yep, we're eclipsed, both of us are psions but half of eclipsed are mages instead. What are you?"

"We're espers. We've all got our own more-or-less unique individual powersets and corresponding backlash symptoms that we have to clear out with contact with compatible espers." He nods his head at his and Lucien's joined hands. "What's the difference between psions and mages?"

"Psions can learn magic that has to do with non-physical effects - illusions, information handling, I'm a precognitive, my Lucien's a diviner, I've got an eidetic memory, he's got a thing to skip sleep but it doesn't work very well yet - it takes a long time to develop a new power and working eclipsed used to be a lot rarer so we're on the forefront of a big explosion in figuring out more about what there is to do. Mages do physical effects like teleporting or healing or flying or telekinesis."

[I guess the backlash removal might explain the hand-holding.]

"How do the dungeons fit into this?"

"They show up and kidnap people into small strange worlds populated with monsters. Often espers end up working to get people out."

"It's as far as I know totally unprecedented for there to be a portal to another - planet? Was it a whole planet?"

"We didn't circumnavigate it. It had weather and a horizon and stuff, I have no reason to suspect it of being a pocket dimension."

"I think the prior portals were to planets."

"Yeah, there's some as yet unexplained portals on our world, we were supposed to help investigate one but I tripped and dragged my Lucien with me through it." She waves the cane illustratively. "They weren't able to get anyone else through, portals are sometimes filtering on unclear criteria, but I was able to expand my existing communicative telepathy to reach my twin brother, so he's caught up on us accepting the rescue rather than die of weird nutritional deficiencies or lightning storms or wildlife."

"Does it still work from here?"

Also, does she really need to insist on disambiguating between him and the other Lucien in that way.

"Not yet, I'm going to be working on that." Yes she absolutely needs to do that.

"We'll need a place to stay in the meantime."

"I can rent you a place?"

Lucien looks to Isabella.

"Regarding rent, I at least don't have my wallet on me and even if I did I don't think Bank of America in this universe recognizes my account number. I normally make my living as a precog, but my range is only a few seconds right now, and I doubt you have the infrastructure to make particularly good use of that. Though I guess it might be legal for me to go into high frequency trading or something I'd still need somewhere to live and enough calories to predict the future on in the meantime. And my Lucien's divination is probably even harder to apply to the job market in an eclipseless world, because it will just kind of sound like him making confident statements for no reason if you don't know diviners are a thing."

"I'd like to hear a lot more about your powers and I'm guessing there's a way to make lots of money off them somehow but I can pay for your place regardless - I'm making a decent amount and this seems important."

"Well, I'm happy to tell you more about them after my food and a shower and maybe an entire night's sleep in an actual bed."

"I can schedule a car to come pick you up and put you somewhere - Lucien, where're you putting 'em -"

"Oh hrm, a hotel if it's now? Or an airbnb but I don't have that on my phone."

"I can have Paula do it." Text text.

It has been sort of a lot of a day and Lucien would like to be kneeling next to Isabella now that there's not an immediate reason for standing.

...Lucien is deeply confused. 

Scritch scritch. "...something wrong?"

"The area around the dungeon is, like, cordoned off, but it's not private private even if, uh, my Lucien, and I, are - familiar enough by way of the two-Luciens thing - I guess people'll probably just assume you're espers and it's backlash-related but still -"

"... do non-espers have to stand or something?"