I've Heard of This

[maggie_of_the_owls]

...This is not her brother's room.
Is this Milliways? Wow! Mama told her about this place, but she's never seen it before.
If Raven were here she could just check if the bar was a person like in Mama's bedtime stories but Sarah is going to have to go up and check the long way.
"Hello?" she says, climbing up onto a bar stool."

Salvage

[kaolinandbone]

"Would you care to explain to me why your door has only one side?"

Eva looks up from her phone. Great, another noble's daughter from some low-tech world: nobody sensible would willingly wear that many layers of silk. "Oh, that? It's a side-effect of the internal store dimension, don't worry about it."

"What."

"Just go with it. I expect you'll see a dozen stranger things by the end of today."

"No, I mean - Internal store dimension?"

Eva encompasses the shop's narrow aisles and bargain bins with an offhand wave. "Welcome to the OTC, multiversal junk shop extraordinaire. We sell the trash of a thousand worlds. Izzizyurfirstimeshoppingwivus? Yeah, obviously. Come here, I'll explain how inter-universal trade works."

The heiress steps over to Eva's glass-topped counter, an amused smile lingering on her lips. "Alright then, I suppose I can indulge you for a few minutes."

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