After the adult Claudia and Mary Elise left, Kellie wanted to talk with her timeline's Mary Elise. Though it wasn't a particularly friendly chat at first. "You turned her to stone?" snapped Kellie.
"I wasn't going to keep her like that," said Mary Elise.
"You were kinda considering taking her amulet so you could defeat Morgan," said Karen.
"Karen, not helping," said Mary Elise through gritted teeth.
"That's pretty far over the line," said Kellie, "If you wanted to show off your power, you could have done something more harmless. Like change her hair color or give her a cat tail."
"That's small potatoes for transformation," said Mary Elise with a dismissive wave of her hand, "Turning someone to stone shows you've got power. Even if I'm not quite ready to face Morgan yet."
"Mary, I know you want to get revenge on Morgan. There's a pretty big line of people who do, though I'm not sure if you're at the head of it or not. But you should know that Morgan le Fay is no one to mess with lightly, even if you are powerful," said Kellie, "Do you have any idea how many timelines have been sealed off because of what she's done?"
"How could I possibly know?" asked Mary, "How would you know?"
"Well, I'm not sure either, but Merlin definitely knows," said Kellie, "And realities where she wins are never happy. So I would stay far away from her as possible."
"We can't leave my dad go unavenged forever," snapped Mary.
"We won't," said Kellie, "But we have to be prepared. That's why I think we need to practice more with our rings."
"Such as?" asked Mary.
"Well, have you ever tried changing an animal into a person or bringing an inanimate object to life?" asked Kellie.
"Uh, no," said Mary, "I kinda thought my ring would only work on humans."
"Well, my ring can work on other things," said Kellie, "I could turn an acorn into a tree and back if I wanted to."
"Why is it my ring can change everything but age, anyways?" asked Mary.
"Good question," said Kelle, "We should ask Merlin about that. I'm gonna call Katie so she can practice with her ring."
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Not too long later, Katie was at Kellie's house and was given a brief version of the latest interdimensional visit. "Huh, so Mary got to meet her alternate self," said Katie.
"Yeah, it was kinda surreal," said Mary.
"Did Claudia meet her other self?" asked Katie.
"No, they were more interested in meeting me," said Kellie, "Besides, I'm not sure the other Claudia would want to see what happened to her dad here."
"Not as bad as my dad," said Mary darkly.
"Let's not get into that again," said Kellie.
"So who hasn't visited our timeline yet?" asked Katie.
"Well, I think that would be Lisa, Mika, and Samantha," said Kellie, "But Lisa can't come here because hopping dimensions isn't good for pregnant women."
"Isn't the other Samantha a white girl instead of being half-Samoan?" asked Katie.
"Yeah, it was a bit of a shock when I first met the Sammy here," said Kellie.
"Boy, would I want to see the other Sammy's reaction to our Sammy," said Mary.
Kellie thought about it and said, "Yeah, I would too."
"So are we going to practice with the rings?" asked Karen, "I haven't had that Ring of Age used on me yet."
"Uh, sure," said Kellie, not saying that Karen used to be a teacher until she aged her down to be Mary's friend.
"Then let's get started," said Katie.