"I'm pretty sure why I left home. Not so sure why I wound up here, except that Nirvikalpa is all torn up around this world, this reality. I think, falling outside the universe as I was, I hit one of those tears and rattled down to Earth like a pachinko ball. But if you weren't expelled from your world of origin by a vengeful personification of metaphysical law, I have no insights."

Harriet loads her new backpack with a few choice items they've already stockpiled.