Giggle. "Well, my utter predictability aside... What do you say we go exploring a bit?"

"Okay."

Hug! "Awesome - I have so many ideas for places we could look for - "

"How about you work on deciding about one, and I'll go pack?"

"Seems fair to me."

Off El goes to do that. And also write some letters to let people know they'll be gone for a few weeks and not to panic immediately.

While Bellona creates a set of parameters that should land them in a technologically advanced civilization. One with space travel.

Fun.

Very!

It takes a while, of course, to triple and quadruple check her math and array placement, but it's not significantly different than the process for moving between Arda and Amestris.

Soon enough -

They have a completed array, awaiting only activation to begin their adventure.

El has a pack for each of them; clothes, food, some useful books and raw material.

"Ready."

"Ready!"

And she moves with her sister to activate the array.

Clap!

Clap!

The array lights with power - the sense of transit is nearly identical to the base array, perhaps lasting slightly longer -

The brilliant light clears, and they seem to be in an industrial - and empty - warehouse of some kind. There's distant noises of life, and a faint hum of machinery.

"Well, we're not dead..."

"Nope! And they're not medieval peasants..."

"So far, so good."

"Promising, at least." She stretches. "Hm, which way to investigate first..."

"Let's try through those doors, how about?"

"Sure," she says, grinning.

The doors don't seem to have handles or even hinges - and they slide open silently when the girls approach, revealing what's possibly an office type of center beyond. There's a heavier door, with an actual handle, on the opposite wall. There's not a lot of light - no windows, the only artificial lights from low strips.

"Think that one goes outside?"

"Hopefully. I'd assume they have an outside... Maybe they're built inside a moon..."

"You were trying for space travel. Maybe they can do that kind of thing."

"That'd be fun!"

"One way to find out!"

She heads over to the door, turning the handle...

And it's locked.

Bellona sighs, clapping her hands and touching the handle - "The lock on this's weird, I think magnetic... There's wires all through this."