"That sounds great," Stephie admits. "One of the reasons I'm here is that it doesn't take long to start getting sick of the seafood and salad diet."

There's a slight nod at the mention of Dee's senses before Duela comments, almost offhand, "It's still weird to me other people don't do that. I mean, would you even know you walked into the wrong timeline? Or would you have to see a lot of things that proved it. And maybe the Nexus just doesn't think holding on to the main one is important any more, since all the people that visit it are living where you do. I dunno about that, though, because there seem to be a lot more portals than regular visitors, so they can't all be because of that."

Jokester nods. "I know Batman's idea of 'taking out the trash' is to beat it unconscious and drag it to jail, and all I know about plumbing comes from that video game with the mushrooms and turtles... As for architecture, I do know what a bearing wall is, but usually more for demolition reasons. And the only way I know a two-by-four from a four-by-four is that the second one has tires. ... Pretty sure I've been hit with both, before, though."