"Well, the kineticists can send material back to the plane but that's the only interaction that can travel back."

"Why do you think that other realities exist?"

And that you're not, you know, just destroying whatever it is you think you're banishing.

And she's not going to argue the terminology, even though she feels like if it can be interacted with it all has to be part of one reality.

"Our goddess Reshma lives within their own plane of existence, out first ancestor saw it and has told stories passed from generation to generation. Also the wood has to come from somewhere."

She'll keep an open mind for if stronger arguments exist.

Where is Owl expected to sleep tonight?

And you mentioned food, does there also exist such a beverage as water?

She will inquire.

"Yes, those wagons over there are the guest wagons. We currently are housing some scouts from various tribes for the night so go ahead and take some of their food tonight. You'll get your own wagon tonight, tomorrow we'll work on getting you a permanent wagon near to the other otherworlder."

The guest wagons have a fire going with some stew cooking, there is a water barrel on the back of one of the wagons.

"Do most people get their own wagon?"

They are not small wagons, and presumably someone put a lot of effort into making... no, that's not the case, they had a "wood kineticist" make it. 

For some reason she keeps expecting them to do things the hard way, when they have powers.

It is so strange that they use swords and spears, and eat wild animals.

"No, only important people to the tribe, also we know that otherworlders might have customs and practices they prefer to do in private."

These people are going to be disappointed when they get to know her.

Nice of them to give her the house to herself. She'll try not to throw any loud parties.

Again, she gets the impression that... no one here is acting quite sane. Is that what culture shock feels like?

"I'll get out of your hair, then."

He nods to you

It's handy that the wagons have doors.

She will close the door to the wagon behind her.

What is the interior like?

A central rectangle surrounded by a bench that goes around the inside of the wagon. Bundles of blankets and spare clothes are placed at varying intervals on the benches. It is dark inside but a lantern hangs above that can be lit by a clever striking mechanism built into the cap.

She'll figure out the lantern later.

She couldn't charge off it yet anyway, unless it's brighter than the fire was out there, and when all else is equal Owl prefers the dark.

She'll lay down on the floor.

What a day.

Well, at least she doesn't have to worry about waking up for school tomorrow.

Unless she does, because she's currently in a hospital.

Well, maybe they'll hold on to her for a few days.

Ever since that truck hit her, it's been one thing after another.

But now she has the space to breathe and orient.

And... it's clear that she's made a pretty poor showing of herself so far.

Hasn't she spent idle hours daydreaming about being portal fantasy'd?

But then it actually happens and, what. She sees someone and follows them around, like she's on a field trip and is waiting for it to be over.

That's... seriously pathetic.

It's probably a good thing that she landed near these people, but it'd have been more interesting if she had to figure out some other way to survive the night.

But now she has some peace and quiet, and it's long past time to orient herself to the situation. 

What's the most urgent thing to think about?

That's a question which answers itself: she needs to come up with all the conceivable things which are important to respond to within five minutes.

The first question on that list is: did she bring some kind of plague that their immune systems aren't prepared for, or vice versa, which is currently multiplying exponentially within their or her cells. 

She's not going to jump up in a panic about that, instead she's going to think of the other things which might be urgent to respond to within five minutes.

There might be someone on the planet with an extrasensory power who became aware of her. 

If everything that she's been told is true, she's not the first otherworlder on this planet. The elf wasn't preemptively captured or murdered - but then again, the elf has powers from the goddess.

Speaking of the goddess. The person that she met in the flowers.

That's a strong contender for the person who created this world, and then, the person who created this world is a strong contender for the person who controls all of the other characters.

Should Owl treat this world as fully what it appears to be? Full of conscious sapients, in orbit around a different star?

Well, it seems overdetermined that she should for at least five minutes.

If the world is real and it all ends in ruin and ash in her mouth, what is the thing she should have done differently right at the start?

She should have avoided getting mind-controlled. How can she tell if she's under mind control?

She could try hitting the chief, though that seems ill-advised. Unless that's the mind control talking? What would yesterday's Owl have said if she told her that she was considering hitting an alien chieftan to check whether she'd been mind-controlled into not hitting him, also he has unknown powers but they work best in melee.

Unless that sword is purely ceremonial... which it could be. He's a really muscly guy, which either means he gets a lot of food and exercise or it means his powers let him cheat.

She's getting side-tracked. What would yesterday's Owl think? Yesterday's Owl would think "that's a really dumb idea." That could be the mind control, what would Owl's mother think. She'd also think it was a dumb idea.

Yeah, she needs a different way to check for mind control. She could spend a lot of time on that and she wants to keep thinking about urgent things, but she'll untie her shoelace so that when she remembers to tie it she'll also remember to check more thoroughly (for example, by checking whether she feels the same way about the people she knows and the stories that she's read and the values that she has as she remembers previously doing).

What else is there that could matter within five minutes.

Time travel. Everyone knows that there's no way to travel further back in time than when you first get access to time travel. She should ask about time travel on this world.

She should go ask the other otherworlder about diseases.

First, though, she'll tie her shoe. And check that she's not mind controlled... well, not in any way perceptible to her.

She'll pay Seren a social call.

"Oh hi, um did you need something?"

"Did you worry about extraplanetary diseases when you first arrived here?"