[She shrugs.] Well, so far as the locals have been able to determine, the fissure's only started producing people in addition to animals and inanimate objects in the past several weeks. We might still be able to figure out how to reverse the trip.

[Or at least, the people who understand a good deal more about magic and different universes than she does may be able to. Goddamn it, Jim, she's a doctor, not a quantum physicist.]

If you can get out into the open, it'll be easier to find you and bring you back to the station with us when we head back? Be careful if you go out onto the beach, though. When I came through a few weeks ago, there were some pretty nasty ambush predators lurking under the sand near the water line.