"Not really," she said, although she supposed they were now, through her. "But where I'm from is more accepting of the idea of multiple worlds than, I guess, most places are."

They had subspace travel and all kinds of weird and wacky things.

"A letter of recommendation from Peter was a part of how I even got in when I did. Because I started in the middle of the year and I'm missing some of the academic credentials I should've had before entering university."