Zia: "Look, chapter 3 is easy." "There's a portal to a pocket universe in the linen closest.The End." Chloe: "Ahem."
Zia (shrugs): "Okay, maybe I had something to do with creating it." Chloe: "Zia, you built a 'lensing particle accelerator' in your bedroom." "Of course you had something to do with creating it."
Zia: "I was trying to help!" Chloe: "By making an empty purple universe that eats clothing?" Zia: "Show me the pocket universes you've created, and we'll see whose is better."
Chloe: "Anyway, so we found out that a couple years ago, this lunatic was trying to make a teleporter, and the Khazovian military stole her work." "They misused it on Day One, and that's what opened all the portals."
Chloe: "And for some reason that I still don't understand, those are apparently why I now have a horse for a butt."
Zia (brightly): "Sounds about right!" Chloe (irritably): "Do you have any idea how insane everything I just said sounds?" Zia: "Now tell them about how we're hiding the pocket universe from the government!"
Characters: Chloe, Zia
Chapter 3, "The Third Roommate"! In which nothing happens, there's nothing to see here, move along, folks, just ignore that glowing interdimensional singularity in the linen closet.