Mountain, meet Endbringer | Glowfic Constellation

"I wish magic worked here. That would be plenty of time to redo my enchantments. I think Burning Blade could have hurt it, but I lost them all when I somehow came here."

"Yes, that would be useful." Alexandria doesn't mention she has informed certain people of Celtana and her universe, and that these people are looking into ways of going to it and failing. That would not be useful.

They find a way to have her secretively burrow into one of the Catskill mountains to recuperate. Certain people continue machinating and trying to make plans with this new element at play.

She's entirely unaware of the various parties' machinations as she hollows out hallways and rooms, doing sufficient work deep in those mountains for it to count as 'hers', then sleeps for close to two full days.

Machinations happen, and an appropriately distant spot underwater is picked out for when she reemerges. Alexandria has left an ear-crystal with Celtana and taught her how to use it, but warned that from within the mountain it would likely not work. They probably would have one that would after she woke up, though.

She presumably got instructions for turning the thing on. She keeps telling it 'hello?' every few seconds as she makes her way out of the mountain.

Eventually Alexandria's voice can be heard. "Hello. Are you feeling better?"

"Yeah. Not at peak, that place isn't mine enough to charge me up all the way, but better."

"Good. We have found a person who is good at languages that might help more than I can with translating books. Do you want to come here?"

"Yes." She closes her exit from the mountain behind her and starts flying, staying low at first because of the hiding thing. "I'm flying. Be there in one hour or two."

"Good. Tell me when you have arrived."

She's not particularly stealthy once she starts seeing buildings and roads. A flying shiny gemstoned seven-foot suit of rock-armor is probably one of the more attention-getting capes.

It is attention-getting! Especially because it is unusual and unheard of. But given that she is fast and the official channels are doing nothing to stop her most people don't panic (too much).

...someone starts following her. "Halt, villain!" they call.

She turns around to face them, slowing down only somewhat. She tries shouted English, what little she knows, "Hello. I do not know much English, sorry. What is 'halt'?"

The kinda-sorta-vaguely French accent probably lends credence to this sentence.

The person following her—red-and-white bodysuit with vague domino patterns, a cape, and a patterned mask—stops and blinks. He was not expecting this. "Uh. It means stop."

"Oh, but why? I have places to go... Did you want to fight or something?"

"I... uh... You're not a villain?" He eyes the armor of earth a bit suspiciously.

"If villain means bad para human like I think, no. I'm going to build roads and predict earthquakes."

He blinks. "Okay... You with the Protectorate?"

"That's where I'm going now. I don't want to keep Alexandria waiting. I can maybe spar tomorrow if you still want."

The cape is alarmed and impressed and surprised and very embarrassed! "Oh um. Yeah don't leave her waiting. I'm, sorry to bother."

He floats away quickly.

So she really is famous and respected. That's convenient for fending off any further interruptions.

Shortly, "I'm at the roof, Alexandria."

"I will be with you in a moment."

Alexandria is soon there, and a sort plump man with glasses accompanies her. "Hello," the man says in Celtana's language, with an accent slightly worse than Alexandria's.

"Hello! Good, English is hard. I'm Mountain."

"I'm Harry. I will help understand the structure of your language and collect samples of it to help develop tinker tech to do it automatically."

He is not automatically understandable, but Mountain will find herself having much less trouble divining the meaning of his sentences than she did Alexandria's.