Barry held a steaming cup of black coffee in one hand as she walked through her new home, searching for her lover and (She squealed with girlish excitement just at the thought) new partner Regina.
As it was still early in the morning, she was clothed only in a scraggly loose tank top and bottom, her dreadlocks wrapped up nicely in a scarf.
Rolling her eyes playfully, she realized that she must be in her hobby room. Barry knocked on the door three times in succession, which suddenly opened at Regina's command.
Regina's back was turned towards Barry, her concentration on a giant map of some kind projected onto the wall by a crystal orb.
"You know, working hard is normally called Burning the Midnight Oil, sweetheart, not burning the crack of dawn oil" Barry said as she tiptoed up to her new girlfriend, who was growing more interesting by the day.
She craned her head and kissed Regina on the lips. This caused Regina to finally turn around and face her.
"Honey, I'm sorry if I seem distant. I've just been distracted all morning."
"It's OK. A sorcerer's work is never done. I just came to show you something cool. Did you see those new photos from the James Webb telescope?" Barry asked with obvious excitement, immediately gulping down her coffee and lowering the mug on a nearby table. She pointed her phone at Regina, with one of the hot off the press NASA pics. "Look at this! Almost every point of light is a galaxy. Not a star, a *galaxy*. How awesome is that?!"
"Yeah!" Regina said, smiling. "That's really something!"
"I know, this must be boring compared to whatever you're studying at the moment So whatcha looking at, honey?"
"A new universe recently popped into existence. One that's really caught my eye."
"I'm listening!" Barry shouted.
"OK, so on another version of Earth, some guy and his daughter recently turned themselves as well as the mother into immortal teenage lesbians, and the daughter invented a transmissible virus that rapidly transforms any woman who comes into contact with it into an immortal teenage lesbian as well. The virus is already spreading at a local nursing home, and according to my projections, 80% of women on their planet will be infected within five years. The parent and child are already calling their little future utopia Lesbian Land."
"Oh wow, that's really cool! Didn't you tell me before that there aren't that many all female Earths around?"
"That's right" Regina said somewhat clinically. "It's very rare. Almost an anomaly. You'd have a better chance of finding a specific grain of sand in the Gobi desert or an honest politician in Washington."
"Why are girl power worlds so rare? I thought that in multiverse theory, every possibility existed somewhere in infinite amounts."
"Well, it's a bit weirder than even that. Every possibility does exist somewhere, but many of those possibilities haven't been created yet. Magic operates on a kind of storytelling logic. Are you familiar with Robert Heinlein, the late sci fi author?"
"Uh... Starship Troopers guy?"
"Yep, exactly. Later in his life, he created a concept called The World As Myth, which meant that every fictional universe was theoretically real, and capable of being visited via interdimensional travel. This more or less is correct and how the multiverse works. The problem is that there's only a limited number of stories in existence. They'll all *eventually* exist as they're being created, but they weren't all created at the same time, and in the universes I've looked into so far, most of the "authors" so to speak aren't that into girl on girl action as much as they are into giant dicks, rape fetishes, and vore."
Regina blew up her cheeks and held her chest, miming that she was about to vomit.
"Wait, so we're living in a story?"
"Yes. It's not a perfect analogy, but it's the closest one to the reality that I can make, and this new universe that I'm talking about? It's essentially someone's sapphic porn fantasy."
This news would shock most people, but Barry was used to Regina telling her seven impossible things before breakfast every day, the very first revelation being that free will was largely an illusion even when discarding the existence of magic and gods, so she took things in stride.
"That's weird. Back on my Earth, the most popular search topic on PornHub was girl on girl. Everyone loves lesbians. *Everyone*. I know that I did before I became one myself. You'd think that if reality was fiction, there would be more worlds where they decide they didn't need guys anymore."
Barry giggled at the implications of her last comment.
Misandrist jokes about the extinction or irrelevance of men were becoming a lot more socially acceptable ever since the target of the jokes had all been consumed by femininity. You can't hurt the feelings of those that don't exist anymore, after all. She realized that she was slowly becoming used to that.
"Well, it's funny that you say that" Regina replied. "This father/daughter team, I think their goal of creating a safe world for lesbians, while noble in theory, will ultimately lead to their world's extinction of men. I've already seen indications that their 'lesbi flu' virus also makes men who are infected completely sterile."
"So these chicks are into eugenics?"
Regina nodded her head sadly.
"More or less. I suspect that they want men to go extinct so they can live for eternity in their self created lesbian paradise. While tempting, I think we can both agree that eugenics isn't cool."
"We should like meet up with these girls, have a slumber party, and convince them to just change all the men into women or something" Barry suggested.
"That's definitely a possibility. I'm like Captain Kirk, I don't chuffing believe in any prime directive. If people are going to be hurt, I have a responsibility to intervene and stop it. Especially since one them, Meiko Weir, is in the process of gaining godlike powers as we speak. If we don't establish contact right away, this could potentially turn into another tragic Kylie Perkins situation."
"Oh my goddess, this is my first adventure with the Sorceress Supreme!" Barry screamed, smiling with all teeth. Her heart began to race.