There is a planet where all life larger than a mote of dust is well over a hundred miles above its surface.
This planet has humans, who have ships and farms and cities, even if the whole floating around thing causes some issues. And on one particular city in one particular back hallway of one particular building, there is a door that is misbehaving.
[Which karaoke? Oh, never mind. Karaoke is - A video of some kind timed to a song, with the words scrolling by on the screen so you know what to sing. You keep tune with the song, mostly, so no sheet music required.]
[I suppose you'll have to listen to it once, to learn it. Mistakes are expected in karaoke, it's almost a party thing.]
They arrive at the indoor mall soon enough. Terence leads Pen into the toy store past a bunch of other stores. Though the place was not expressly designed for angels it's roomy enough.
The toy store contains a lot of brightly colored signs with arrows pointing to different parts of it. Not separated by intended gender - or at least only partially separate. The major sections seem to be children's books, various kinds of building blocks, dolls and models of ships and similar things, and arts and crafts or science kit type things.
"Here we are, a toy store."
It's a pretty good toy store. Pen indicates the good toys because grownups cannot always tell which those are.
Terence will amiably agree on which toys are good, though he does subtly talk up the science kit stuff.
He will buy her five or six medium price toys. That's probably enough for now, yes?
And on the way back, [You mentioned 'ones of' people. What's up with that?]
[Different worlds having different people except sometimes have same people instead. Lots Mommies and Daddies and stuff.]
[Oh, now I understand. You mentioned this earlier but I was still trying to get your door back. So two copies of more or less the same person despite what must be severe environmental differences. That's kind of cool. Strange, ertainly, but interesting too.]
[I suspect I will be the same way. Five of me with different specialties could get a lot done.]
[All computer, electronic, and mechanical things that come to our collective attention.]
[I like showing off how smart I am and interesting challenges and fixing things other people say are impossibly broken. I think it's the kind of thing other mes would have to share. We'd be the inter dimensional tech support team.]
[I would definitely need to learn a lot about how Jane works first. And how she broke the first time. And what 'fixed' looks like. And... You get the idea.]
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