The same isn't true about the wind.

[mage_see_mage_do]

Witches aren't troubled by the cold, but the same isn't true about the wind.
Temperance wasn't afraid of falling from her brand new cloudpine branch, but she might drop her books and that was nearly as bad. She decided to land until the weather quieted down.
Instead of quieting it down, the weather got worse, snow started falling and it was hard to navigate even with Faramund covering her with his wings.
Temperance didn't hear anything, just saw a glimpse of the thing, just enough for her brain to register the combination of snake and mirror and...
...then she found herself under warm sunlight, feeling a gentle breeze over her skin. Blinking away the sudden light and the melting snow in her eyes, she found herself surrounded by a green woodland that was too warm to be anywhere near she remembered being.
In short, Temperance and her daemon were very confused.

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[mage_see_mage_do]

Temperance did no expect being asked about clothes by a zombie, she is just a few feet away from the girls now, still hoovering in the air.

"Those are typical witch's clothes," Temperance says not even bothering looking down to her silks.

"What do you mean?" Temperance says to the other one "how do you know all this stuff?"

[whatamithinking]

"I'm a mutant telepath," she says. "Papa is too. I do try not to actually read peoples' minds without permission or a good reason, but I can hardly help noticing that the two of you are running different...threads? iterations? instances? of the same mind. Is witch the word for someone who's divided like you?"

[iamnotpolaris]

The other sister hops into the air, mimicking Temperance's position without actually having cloudpine under her. "So what can you do, besides flying?" she asks curiously. "If Edie wasn't so sure you weren't a mutant, I'd have guessed some kind of plant-based power, based on the tree branch."

[mage_see_mage_do]

"I am not sure what a mutant is..." Temperance says to the telepath "Witch is a species... look like female humans but can do magic, use cloudpine to fly," she gestures to her branch with her head "don't age and flying birds for daemons. Humans and Witches have daemons, every person has one. They are our souls."

She looks at the non-telepathic flying mutant "How are you doing that?"

[iamnotpolaris]

She rolls up one of her sleeves, showing bands of metal along her arm. "Magnetism. I haven't mastered floating without these, yet, but moving metal is the most trivial application there is." pause. "...I'm Emily, by the way, what's your name?"

[whatamithinking]

"A separate species, are you sure? There are some people who are saying that mutants are a separate species from humanity, but the genetic evidence doesn't really support that. Mutants have been public knowledge for almost two decades now, you must be from very far away indeed not to have heard of us. Especially since as I said neither Papa nor I has ever encountered someone with a mind like yours, and he's reasonably well traveled. Actually--do you mind if I use my telepathy, that would make this much simpler."

[mage_see_mage_do]

"I starting to think this is another planet," Temperance says "I am from Earth. Everyone knows about witches, they have been around since forever, and everyone knows about daemons on account of having them since birth. And my name is Temperance Lytess, but just Temperance will do."

[iamnotpolaris]

"This...is also Earth. Although if you really are from another planet it could just be that we both chose to name our planets after dirt."

[whatamithinking]

"I don't think so. If she's from another planet, why is her...daemon...a species native to our planet? The fact that she looks like a human I suppose I could accept as convergent evolution but two species that look just like species from our planet is a little hard to swallow."
"My name is Edie Xavier. I think Emily already mentioned my first name, but not our surname."

[mage_see_mage_do]

Temperance doesn't have anything against good manners, but she won't say a "pleased to meet you" when the situation is this weird.

"And you are speaking English," Temperance points out "unless you can translate stuff somehow, it wouldn't be the weirdest thing I have seen today. Your clothes look fairly normal for north america, this is the United States or Canada?"

She absently pets Faramund, who has been quiet this entire time.

[whatamithinking]

"I can, in fact translate stuff," Edie admits. "I can telepathically glean the meaning of something from someone's mind, even if I don't myself know the language. But I have to do that deliberately; it's not automatic, and I'm not doing it now. Besides which the sheer similarity of everything we've referenced which isn't glaringly bizarre is simply too overwhelming to be simply interplanetery convergent cultures. It's the United states. Westchester, New York, to be exact."

[mage_see_mage_do]

"I was in Canada, somewhere on the lower end of the Nunavut province," Temperance says "I was walking because the wind was too strong, then some weird creature jumped towards me and I was here," she pauses "this is even weird when I try to explain it. You mentioned something about telepathy?"

[whatamithinking]

"Yeah. If you let me, I can sort of...read your context? That's not a good phrase. Okay, here--
Temperance suddenly knows exactly what Edie means. She can work around Temperance's personal information to get a good understanding of the world Temperance is from. Things she wouldn't actively be thinking about, because it's too normal--the year, background context about daemons, any kind of cultural knowledge Temperance has. She can also, separately, acquire the circumstances for how exactly Temperance came to be here. The latter is even easier--she does something like it with her twin all the time. She won't do either without Temperance agreeing to it.
With the information comes the unfamiliar sensation of another mind touching her own, along with a fleeting impression that this is how Edie feels every time she's close enough to another person to observe their existence.

[mage_see_mage_do]

"Okay, just keep my mind in one piece" Temperance says "I use it everyday you know"

If Edie scans Temperance's mind she will see...

...A world very recognizable as Earth, but with clear differences. Three different intelligent species, humans, witches and the Panserbjørne, the former two are born with daemons - external souls that accompany them through their entire lives, settling around puberty into a form that represents themselves and shouldn't be touched - the three species haven't always lived in harmony, but they manage to co-exist today. History is remarkably similar with many names the same and the roles different. One remarkable difference is that Temperance is from the year 2015.

Edie can also see what Temperance knows about how she came to be here, but it isn't much.

[whatamithinking]

"...You're from thirty-five years in the future!"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Whoa, seriously?" There's a pause as Emily assimilates what of the infodump her sister chose to share with her. "Wow. ...You have gay marriage. Two men or two women can get married?"

[mage_see_mage_do]

"Yambe Akka!" Temperance says "1980... I wish I knew more about history," she turns to Emily "huh, it is recent among humans, Witches can just marry each other if they desire."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Huh. Lucky. I hope our world develops the same way."

[mage_see_mage_do]

"Could you explain your world with your magic?" Temperance asks to Edie "I have no idea what expect from... all this."

[whatamithinking]

"It's not magic, it's a mutation," Edie says. "But sure."
The world is...basically the same. Despite the fact that no one has daemons, and for most of history their has only been one kind of sentient being, the worlds' histories match up with startling regularity.
(The bit where John Calvin wasn't Pope in this universe goes unnoticed. The twins are Jewish and know very little that isn't extremely basic about Christianity.)
In 1944, during the Holocaust, a teenage girl named Erika Lehnsherr manifested magnetic powers while trying to avoid having her and her mother separated from her father in the camps. One of the camp doctors was also a mutant, a dynakinetic called Klaus Schmidt. He killed her parents and tortured her for years, in the name of developing her potential. When she ultimately escaped at the end of the war, she vowed to hunt him down and kill him for what he had done. While she was doing that, he made plans based on ideas about how mutants worked that were so wrong they would be funny if they didn't prompt him to use mutants who hadn't manage to escape his control to guide the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation. A CIA agent named Moira McTaggert found him out, and went to Charles Xavier, a recent doctor of genetics whose dissertation had speculated on the possibility of mutants, only to find that he and his sister, a shapeshifter, were mutants themselves. While Charles and Erika were both trying to take down Schmidt (now going by Sebastian Shaw) for different reasons, their paths intersected. They worked together, formed a partnership, recruited mutants found using Charles' telepathy and an amplifier called Cerebro, and managed to kill Shaw right before it was too late to save the world, at the cost of Charles' legs. It happened publicly enough that there was no hiding the existence of mutants after that. The two eventually got married, had twin girls, and are currently running a boarding school for young mutants.

The ensuing blow-up after Cuba, Magneto's almost-descent into villainy, and the fact that the two weren't married until after the twins were born goes unmentioned.

[mage_see_mage_do]

"Ok, Wow," Temperance says after the infodump ends "that was interesting."

The witch thinks for a moment, looking at her books

"So, I haven't tried to tackle a situation like this with magic before," She says "Could I stay with you people for a time? I can trade my stay with magical favors if necessary."

[iamnotpolaris]

"You'll have to ask our parents, but probably. They might ask you to pretend to be a mutant if anyone not part of the school shows up, though. We kind of have a weird relationship with the government."

[whatamithinking]

"What kind of magical favors?"

[mage_see_mage_do]

"I don't mind pretending being a mutant," Temperance says "people might just assume I am one anyway. Witchcraft can do things with nature, healing people, animals and plants, influence the weather or environment. I am going to need to reconstruct a lot of spells but I can easily come up with spells to heal bruises, cure common illness, make a room colder or warmer, create light, all of this much faster or much cheaper than technology does."

[whatamithinking]

"How extensive does the healing get?"