Spring-world internet is going sort of nuts about the image of the three-headed velociraptor monster from the news article a few days previously Apparently it is not just a car accident, and somehow no one noticed this. People are split on whether this whole thing is somehow a hoax, with the image edited in after the original article was published.

Evidence for the image being what was actually published abounds - there are physical copies, videos of it coming up on a screen while news anchors discuss the accident, and absolutely no sign that there was any other image in the original article.

Proponents of the opposing theory, that this is all somehow a hoax, argue back that this is an absolutely ridiculous claim that would be better explained by an elaborate hoax creating all the other evidence and modifying all original copies. Yes, it's a stretch, but alternative explanations seem way less reasonable. 

Additionally, the image is clearly CGI. It's not even good CGI! The monster has shiny scales that if you zoom in you can tell don't actually reflect the surroundings! This is notably a feature of early CGI - in fact, the velociraptor heads look really uncannily close to those in Jurassic Park. 

Some people are pointing out prior instances of similar phenomenons - a woman with three glowing eyes going unremarked about in a story about a charity dinner, a gas leak article with glowing orbs around the wreckage, and a moment at the Oscars where an actor appears to be lifted off the ground by a whirlwind and deposited on stage to accept an award. 

She really hopes this is enough for them to work it out eventually.

"Do you want to try doing some magic on purpose so the internet can find out about it?"

"I don't yet really have a plan for handling that and still don't want to be found by any angry local wizards."

Nod.

May low-key impersonsates Ren, while the Spring fills up - if she has to live here she has to fill her time with something and Ren wrote the book on filling time with something. They can go to all the museums and concerts and theater productions and weird restaurants that this universe's Toronto has to offer. She considers taking up an instrument or painting or ice skating or something. She audits random university classes.

When she's got enough magic (and a little extra in case of emergency), she wants to try resurrecting someone. Eventually she's mostly going to be doing high leverage espers with good track records from back home, but she wants to test it out first. Lianelle wants her friend Lucian, right?

"Yeah he'd really like the future - especially that science museum yesterday but everything else too."

"Do you want him back here or in my world where he won't be subject to the veil?"

"Your world? Though I'm not sure which he'll choose once he finds out about magic."

"I wonder how that'll affect, like, metacognition..."

Back to her own Toronto. She requests a spare empty silo - Paula mostly just knows that she dropped off the face of the Earth for a couple days and that she's now indefinitely on leave "working on something", but she can still get a silo on demand. In the spare empty silo -

- she resurrects the dead.

"Well, I appear to have guessed wrong about the non-existence of life after death."

"Good to see you too!"

"The year in this universe is 2034 but in your home universe it's ten years earlier. I did the resurrection here because in your universe there's a lot of magical interference with forming beliefs about magic if you're not already in the know. Hi. I'm May."

"I'm Lucian - are you human?"

"I'm a human. In my universe, in 1971, some humans started turning up with magic powers, I'm one of those; and also hostile pocket dimensions started kidnapping people. Your universe has had a completely different kind of magic all along instead."

"I see...Lianelle, the Magyar -"

" - were magic. So was I."

"Well, that goes a way towards explaining things about both."

"It explains what was up with the Magyar - me being weird was mostly just me. Well, I guess the last month or so of my life involved a lot of magic."

"Yes. I gathered the Magyar had some sort of means of crafting story and myth to have a shocking degree of persuasiveness, and I assumed that was also involved in your last month or so of life."

"See, I told you he was clever."

"What was it that they were doing that looked like - persuasive storytelling?"

"Everyone, including me, firmly believed that several specific villages were the victims of unfortunate fires, which I discovered had specifically spared their informants and allies in those villages. I concluded there must be some other explanation, such as there having been soldiers who attacked those villages, and that the Maygar had some way of hiding this so persuasive that it caused even their enemies to believe their lies."

"Huh. Pretty close."

"Well, I had Lianelle's help, as she seemed resistant to the stories more so than me."