fandomhigh | BWI Airport Portalocity Lounge, Saturday Morning

There was a crackle of energy before reality split and portal opened up into the Portalocity Lounge. A few seconds later a figure popped through the portal wearing what appeared to be an environmental suit attached to an air supply hose going back into the portal. He then pulled out a tablet device and took some readings before stripping off the environmental suit revealing the teenager known as Barry Ween.

"Okay, Jeremy. I'm here and the atmosphere is breathable. Send the rest of my shit through," Barry said into his comm headset. "No. Just push it into the portal and pull back the suit. Jesus Christ! How fucking hard is it to push it through numb-nuts? Just fucking push it!"

Three suitcases and a large crate appeared through the portal. "About fucking time. Okay, now press the button to close the portal. Which one? The big fucking button that has a label on it that says 'PRESS THIS FUCKING BUTTON AND NOTHING ELSE.' Are you fucking kidding me? No. No. No! Just fucking forget it! Don't touch anything I'll shut it down remotely."

A couple of taps on his pad and the portal disappeared with a "plip." "All right it's done. Don't touch any of my fucking stuff while I'm gone, Jeremy. You hear me? All right. I'll check in with you later."

Barry looked up at the glittery sign bearing the name 'Fandom High' and grunted before going back to his tablet and taking further readings; muttering to himself occasionally when he found something of interest.

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"Do you want some water? I've got an extra bottle in my bag," she said. "It might not be cold anymore but maybe it'll help? That was a really cool entrance, even with the yuck."

"I'd love that," Anders nodded. "Thank you."

He pushed his hair off his face and looked around a little more. Absolutely nothing about this place was familiar. Karl's potion had done its job.

"And -- I know this sounds absurd, but where are we?"

Yeah, that did sound strange, and Kira was grateful to be digging into her bag for that spare water bottle so she could try to school her expression. "BWI? We're waiting for a school shuttle here," she said, offering him the bottle. "Were you... um, looking for somewhere else?"

Anders took a swig of the water, the texture of the bottle unfamiliar beneath his fingers.

Water, at least, was the same.

"I was just looking to get away," he said. "Which it seems like I did, so there's something good. And I don't know what a BWI is."

"It's an airport. But we're going to the school by bus because it's on an island." Okay, wait, that probably didn't make sense. "I mean, it's close by. You, uh, look like you got kind of far away." The robes looked pretty awesome, she had to admit.

"I'm from Ferelden in Thedas," Anders explained. "And if I've never heard of this place, I must be far away."

Oookay then. Now she understood what Barry had been talking about. "We're in Baltimore, in Maryland, in the Unites States. On Earth," she added as a sort of afterthought. "I've, uh, never heard of Ferelden."

"In Thedas?" Anders asked helpfully. "It's across the Waking Sea from the Free Marches, not too far from Orlais."

But, as the place names she'd mentioned made no sense to him, he was beginning to suspect they had few reference points in common.

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Kira frowned a little and shook her head. "That sounds like a pretty place though," she said. "But maybe not since you said you were trying to get away."

"No, it's very pretty," Anders said. "If I wasn't a mage I'd have no complaints about the landscape at all. Where are you from?"

"I'm from New York. It's a few hours north of here." By car, but she had a feeling mentioning that wasn't going to help anything. "Did you say you're a mage? Like, you know magic?"

"I was born with magic," Anders confirmed. "Is that unusual here?"

"It's... not common, no," Kira said, understating a bit. "But that sounds really really cool."

"Sometimes it is," Anders said. "Sometimes I would as soon have been born normal, but there are definitely benefits."

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