"I bet you could wrangle a setup to generate electricity by burning gas but that is probably also not a huge priority."

this is Bella's new phone
I am home safe but wow did the weirdest thing ever happen, you'll never guess
text me back when you are in a good place to hear about the weirdest thing ever, no, weirder than that

Hi Bella! I'm really glad you survived. 

The weirdest thing I can think of is all the weird things I can think of right now involve mals and there's no way you wanna hear about that.

What happened?

My team and I went to an alternate universe
I am not shitting you, if you want to come over here and give me your jazzed up sodium pentathol thing from junior midterms before I go into further detail that would be legit of you

I am not sure I believe you but if you are lying to me I'm sure you have a good reason. 

I don't really want to get on a plane to New Orleans right now, especially since there's no way my stepmother would let me bring Robin and I haven't seen him in four years. 

I can come to you when my dad lets go of me?

That would be great honestly. 

Tbc NOT just because of your implausible story. If your implausible story reason was to give you an excuse to fly to Atlanta it's not necessary. 

I am aware that it is possible to arrange social visits without implausible stories!

Okay good. 

When should I expect you?

Robin says hi. 

Hi Robin!
I can actually be there really fast for implausible reasons, can you send me a pic of Atlanta's entryway outside enclave proper?

Uh ok

Gimme a sec

"Once my dad is ready to let go of me we can go to Atlanta and meet your opposite numbers, is everybody gonna want to come along for that?"

"Yeah! If for no other reason than wanting to not get cut off from the source of portals." 

Kanimir texts her a picture. 

Bella displays the image to their portalperson.

"Is this another thing I'll ruin if I look at it?"

"Nnnnnthey have their own thing going on so you probably still shouldn't look at it?"

"He already knows magic exists, it's fine," she says, and opens the portal. 

Kanimir DID NOT KNOW WHAT HE WAS EXPECTING, but a portal opening out of thin air and spilling out a large number of people he doesn't recognize isn't one of them! Those girls look Sino, does he know anybody with a Sino alliance member--that guy's in a wheelchair, must've been a graduation injury, possibly unless he's older--wait what the fuck--

"So, you're my doppelganger." 

"I don't think it would be very difficult to tell us apart. Are those wings real or just a very good facsimile." 

"They're real. My name is Katarzyna Grigori, and this is my twin sister Jaromira." 

"--This is potentially a stupid question, and I wouldn't ask except for the wings, but is that Grigori as in the Grigori--"

"No, you've got it exactly right! My family are Erinyes, we're descended from beings who are or are analogous to the fallen angels of Abrahamic lore." 

"--Bella I believe you now."