“So there’s actually another dimension, with a portal leading into one of the lesser explored parts of the North Shore,” said Lennox, “I can hardly believe it.”

“You would if I took you there,” said Pandora, “But that’s not all there is about the place that will be hard to believe. Many people from your North Shore and a few other places have started a colony there. My daughter told me all about it. People have had their entire houses, lock stock and barrel, all teleported into the other dimension, and enjoyed its abundance of land and prosperity. Mick and Reba have asked me to move in there too, to be near my grandchildren which I’ll have in the years ahead. As soon as I saw you, I knew I wanted you to come with me.”

And there it was, just like that, everything laid out for him, just as she’d rehearsed it many times, but with the last page of the script left unread. The young man obviously liked her, which was heightened by him having seen her on television for the first time a little over a year into his adolesence. She’d been leading up to telling him the last fact about the other world, namely that it was populated by native giants and Upsized earthlings. Suddenly she’d made the instant call to leave out that one rather large detail, until he was there at a time when she had become one of those Upsized earthlings. There seemed to be no need to make it any more complicated than that.

“A good looking celebrity and a chance to move to a better world, and the way things are going, I won’t even have to quit my job. How could I say no to that?” said Lennox.

She smiled affectionately.

“Well .... if you’re already sure you want to come, I can show you where the portal is and tell you when and where to meet us,” said Pandora, “My daughter already knows the location of the portal. She can take you there some time before the day, and show you where the portal is. Then you can go back there by yourself and walk through at the prearranged time. I’ll have to fly back to the States, and make sure that I’m in my house, when teleporter collects it and me. Reba and Mick will be picked up by the teleporter along with their Sydney home too.”

She had just bought him an expensive lunch in a waterfront restaurant and offered him the way to a much better sounding world. It was unlikely that he would ask questions about not being able to be in her house at the time of the teleporter’s use on it. It would have involved her paying for an expensive flight to take him over to the United States, where he presumed she would have been living all these years as an American actress. He would guess that Mick and Reba needed their privacy, and that the portal was the best way for him to go.