At your tone, the creature retreats into the box until only its quivering gray nose is visible. "Don't let Dr. . scare you, he means well."
The conversation is getting away from you. "Gabriel, why do you still have that creature?"
"Because she's proof my theories can work! I suffered almost no backlash from the summoning!"
Gabriel is excited for the first time since this conversation began. "I know! I've got to try again to confirm that it's repeatable."
"You're going to try again? Will we have another of these creatures to deal with?"
"No! I mean, probably not!"
"I wouldn't be that certain," Alex says.
At your look, Gabriel stares at the floor. "I know I need to send her back. I tried!"
You pinch the bridge of your nose. A headache is threatening to form behind your eyes. Dealing with Blankenship's return was bad enough, and now you've got to handle a summoned creature. "If you make a tiny hole in the dimensional barrier, then the creature—"
"Summers." At your confused blinks, Gabriel continues, "I named her for the family in the X-Men. You know, because she's from another dimension. Rachel Summers came from an alternate future dimension, and Cyclops's son Nathan Summers came back as Cable after he got kidnapped to a future dimension, only a different one than where Rachel—"
"Regardless," you cut in. "Make a tiny hole next to…Summers…and she'll return home." Objects from other universes don't belong here. The universe wants to push them back into their home dimension. The more sentient the objects are, the easier it is. The lime-green threads indicate that the creature would be yanked home.
Wait, would the same approach get rid of Alex? You're not sure you want that, at least not yet.
"My physical form is no more," they say. "I will not be pulled back to my original dimension."
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