[that's how she keeps herself going. that and eternally smiling and insisting that Everything is Fine, even when it wasn't. and when she thinks about what she lost, what her mother and her mother and all of her foremothers have been able to do for all of recorded history, she gets a little neurotic]

Yeah. It's hard to be more specific, though, with me apparently being the only one from my particular dimension. [she tries to not look as concerned as she feels] Have you ever heard of something called the Phantom Zone? If my planet is one one dimension and Earth on the other, the Phantom Zone is what's keeping the dimensions separate.