Maybe they can get Patiri to deal with that then.

(In a small voice) Zofin offers the notion that time still is dillated between Milliways and Amenta so they have time to brainstorm.

Reasonable. Meanwhile, they can take turns staying in Milliway's main bar area, ideally two of them at a time?

Yes, that sounds sensible.

Did Patiri go back to her room? Lia can go get her so they can discuss dealing with her roommate before they separate again.

Patiri did go back to her room. And she up to discuss how to work around the roommate.

Oh good! Lia would also like to take another couple books while she's up here, too.

While they're upstairs, the door opens again, admitting a new face. 

"-and the wedding's on the fourteenth of February, can you believe it, Lya, it's such a cliche!" He sounds delighted by this fact. "Chère wants me to be her man-of-hon-" he stops mid-word, blinking around the room. 

"...Lya, when did you turn your house into a bar? And how didn't I notice it last night?" 

"What?" Asks a familiar voice, as an equally familiar face comes into view, apparently coming up a flight of stairs on the other side of the door. "My house is not a bar, what are you- oh." A near-identical copy of Liarae steps into the bar, nudging the brown-haired man out of the way. "What on earth?"

Isteri glances over and notes the alt. "Hi, it looks like this is the first time at Milliways, don't panic. This is an inter dimensional bar that appropriated your door until you leave back through it."

"-Well, I wasn't expecting any sensible answer to that question, but that wasn't among my guesses." She steps the rest of the way into the bar, closing the door behind her and grabbing her brother's arm to tug him over to the table the blue-haired woman is sitting at. "Inter-dimensional bar? Are you all from other dimensions, then? Lands of the blue- and green--haired people?"

Brandon pulls his arm out of her grasp, slipping it around her shoulders instead as he looks around the room, before focusing on the people she's talking to. "We had some place to be," he mentions, "That door was the one leading to the rest of Lyra's house. Are we going to have to dig out of the basement?"

"The name is Amenta." Isteri tells Lia's alt. To the man with her. "Once you leave the door returns to work normally, though it might not come back ever, so this can be a unique opportunity. Time might be stopped or slowed down in your world."

"Oh, really? Well, if it's slowed enough I guess we could stick around for a bit. Is there a way to tell from inside, or do we just need to toss a sock through the door and see if it's still falling when we open it again?" 

"The second thing. It's not usual for time to slow down instead of outright stopping. But it's happening to us - the amentans - so it sounds worth mentioning."

"Are you not gonna mention her alt?"

"Alt?" 

Brandon pauses on the way back to the door, also curious about what this means. 

"I was getting there," Isteri says. "Alts are - as it has been explained to me - different versions of a person from different worlds. There is someone called Liarae here in Milliways, who looks like you, minus the alien hair."

"Alien hair! I guess it is, from your perspective." He ruffles it, "It's such a fetching shade, but I think I might look good in blue," he muses.

"Go check the time thing," she tells Brandon, rolling her eyes (he goes), "Well, I'm Lyra, and that's my twin, Brandon. Where is this person who looks like me?" 

"She went to fetch someone and should be returning shortly."

"Do you have any magic in your world?"

"Alright. Magic? Well, we have Gemini." She holds up a hand and produces a delicate, hollow sphere of ice, "I have cryokinesis," she explains, "All twins have powers back home." 

Blink. She glances down at her belly. "Just twins? Triplets as well?"

"What sort of powers?"