Logan and Allison finally returned home from their honeymoon/road trip, which had lasted for over a month.
The two young women were both all smiles as Logan's mother Katherine welcomed back her daughter and daughter in law, hugging and kissing them both affectionately.
"God, I missed you both. Things haven't been the same here without you."
"We're glad to be back too, Mom" Logan said, smiling.
"We've got like a million different pictures we took and so many stories to share!" Allison added.
Logan's relationship with her parents since she had gotten engaged to Allison was stronger than it had ever been since maybe she was a little kid.
It was as if The Great Change, and Allison specifically, had all made the Hanley family happier as a whole.
Katherine and Sophie were noticably closer as lesbians then they had ever been as man and wife, though the age reduction may have had a little to do with that too.
"Girls, I've got a whopper of a story to tell you myself. I was playing on my softball team at the park last week, and I think that I discovered a portal to another dimension."
"What?!" Logan and Allison both yelled at the same time.
"Mom, that's nuts" Logan said.
"Is it *any* more crazy than six month of winter?"
Logan sighed.
"I guess not."
Allison suspected that her wife still had trouble accepting new things. She tried to be as supportive as she could about it, but personally, she went more with the flow than Logan did. Magic and weirdness was clearly a part of daily life now, and there was nothing that they could do about it.
"Tell us about it, Mom" Allison said.
She loved having two new moms in addition the two she already had.
"OK, so the ball landed in this area near the fountain. Logan, you used to throw pennies in it as a kid, remember? Anyway, as I was fetching the softball, I saw noticed something hinky right next to the fountain. It was like a...a gap in space. Like someone had cut out a section of it. It was weird. I reached my hand through it, and everything seemed normal, but..."
Katherine paused.
"Through the gap, I swear to God, I saw a man run past me."