Clara nearly choked on her cocktail and her eyes bugged out in surprise. "You're kidding me! He actually gave her a red tail? And no, that's not something we do where I'm from."

Greg leaned in close to Clara and confided, "She had it coming. She's been difficult to control since before you entered Ian's life. But enough about Brooke. Tell me about your world. I've traveled to a few of the places Ian found. Some of them are technological marvels, and on some of them, the humans are hunter-gatherers. Most of the portals he finds lead to empty space where there should be an Earth, but there is not....