"Paging Dr. Bimbo... Dr. Bimbo to the OR."

Giggle. "Maybe I can get in that name change before graduation."

"If we go back for graduation."

"Maybe I can get an interdimensional medical degree, then."

"We can... probably get you back."

"Origin worlds might be a uniquely definable parameter."

Thoughtful pause. "I definitely don't want to, like, suddenly and inexplicably and permanently vanish on nearly everyone I know? Or on all my stuff, I have so much art in my apartment I'm very attached to... But, like, I don't mind exploring the multiverse some, our world was sometimes boring."

"It's a whole new world."

"We can probably summon things too. Or people."

"Huh. That has some possibilities. Even if you can just send a note, actually, that'll patch things in the short term..."

"It'll take some tweaking, but it doesn't sound in-principle impossible."

"Cool. There isn't a huge rush, though, we were on a long vacation..."

"Ah, good."

Bellona tucks her feet up under her a bit, leaning more into El. A bit abruptly - "So if you guys aren't sisters - how'd you meet?"

"First week of college- secondary school. I was sitting by myself at a meet-and-greet and Ruby came over to talk to me. She liked my sass, I guess."

"...Huh. I would've guessed - childhood friends or something."

"Growing up without El sounds weird."

"Mm, neither of us had really happy childhoods..."

...Awkward unhappy shrug.

"The early bit of ours was mostly good. Didn't get bad until I was nine, and that was mostly tolerable for like two years anyways." Being eleven had sucked and being twelve had really sucked and the next few years after that had mostly been a slow jagged recovery, but, well. Happy young childhood. (Her skin is crawling a bit like it sometimes gets when she's reminded of being in the armor. She snuggles into El's side more.)

Pat pat.

"Better when we were together."

Nuzzle. "Yeah. Wouldn't trade El for anything."

"It's good that you have each other, then."

Small smile. "Yeah. And it's good you guys found each other eventually."

Ruby grins and squeezes her girlfriend. "Very good."

"It's been an exciting time, that's for sure."

Heeeeee. "The best time."