Seen the news?

Uh, weather-controlling alien, shootout in red neighborhood...

That was also the weather-controlling alien! He was calling down that terrifying lightning storm because he was mad at us for shooting all the reds. 

Did he hurt anyone?

With the lightning storm? No, Aitim went to talk to him and calmed him down and he gave us alien magic stuff and only muttered occasionally about overthrowing the government. And who doesn't mutter occasionally about overthrowing the government, really. 

He did injure those cops earlier in the red district thing but he wasn't trying to kill them and I think I read they'll be okay.

Oh good. So what's the thing?

Alien magic stuff. You should really come and see it.

Ooooh, where, when?

Uh, anywhere within six miles of here but I need advance notice if you want to do it someplace other than my house.

I guess we'll come to your house as soon as Katin has had a bath. She found mud.

Of course she did. See you soon!

Peka and a freshly washed Katin arrive at his house a little later.

"Hi Peka! Hi Katin! So the aliens can make these things called pocket dimensions. They're whole worlds - well, they start out small, but they grow every day - that you can access from ours."

"Ooooooh!"

"Uh huh! And the thing about them is that anyone can make one, if you have the alien technology for it, but they're not all the same. They reflect your deepest soul. Isn't that such a good system -"

"Long as people can have babies in 'em."

"I can't really imagine an Amentan with a babies-incompatible soul. We're pulling out of the population control treaties, upping the credits - not lifting them, not yet, they want to be careful and twenty pocket dimensions will keep us a long time but not literally forever -"

"Eeeeeeeee!"

He sweeps her up into his arms and giggles. "Come see my pocket dimension?"

"Yes please!"

"Pocket!" exclaims Katin.

Makel has a portal in his living room. His pocket dimension does dramatic lighting of its own accord whenever anybody walks in. This section has rather little gravity, so you can soar if you jump.

"Eeeeeee!" shriek Peka and Katin nearly simultaneously, and up they bounce.

It is adorable. He watches. He listens to his dimension's dramatic background music. He concentrates on the thing that makes flying work, and then he takes off flying.

"It's so beautiful here!"

"Thank you! I really enjoy it! It's not really a place where you'd build a house, but there are a buncha real estate blues with dimensions for that, and it's awesome."