[The server graciously nods and then putters away after making sure everything is to the two females' liking, probably to go assist their other clients. Maria, meanwhile, nods her head a little bit as she takes another sip, then looks almost wistfully into the mug, then out at everyone just...having a pleasant time.]

It certainly does, doesn't it? I'm not unfamiliar with, um...multiversal travel of this nature, n-not exactly... [That creature that pulled her and her grandfather into what was essentially a pocket in time, where things more or less stood still in time...that was more a temporal anomaly and distortion, but portals in spacetime were prevalent in White Space, which connected to places and times all over.] But never something quite like this? There's a mixture of science and magic, it seems, and that alone is just...fascinating. I wouldn't have thought those two aspects would communicate so well together.

I'd love to learn more about it somehow...at some point.