"I... don't know if you'd want to try this, but I really liked the pokémon games when I was younger, and maybe we could both play? Like I'd get a DS too and we could get the opposite versions of the game and trade each other anything our version doesn't have?"

"Awwww! Sure, that sounds great!" She giggles and reaches up to pat Sable gently on the head. "I would love to try this universe's cuddlemon with you!" 

"I have just been headpatted by my own foster-daughter. Eh, who needs dignity." Sable giggles. "There are also big consoles for use with a TV, and we could get one of those if you wanted, but I think we may wind up having our hands full with the DSes. Any other gaming questions?"

"These handheld consoles, are they usual to give to children? Will people look weirdly at me in public for having something so expensive as a twelve year old?"

"No one will look weirdly at you for having one. People might look at me weirdly if I play one in public, but that's their problem."

"That's good to hear. I assume the same's not true of the laptop?"

"Twelve-year-olds with laptops ever happen, but not nearly as commonly as twelve-year-olds with portable game systems, yeah."

She giggles and nods. "More fools them, then. I'll definitely keep the laptop at home in that case. Let me see, do I have any more questions... I expect I'll have a lot of time to burn assuming your local education is mostly very below my level, so I have to ask - know any good massively multiplayer online games? In my experience they're excellent at eating any time you want to throw at them."

"I never got into it, but there's a really popular one called World of Warcraft, came out three-four years ago. Your new laptop is absolutely powerful enough to run it. If you like the trial, I could cover a subscription. No premium currency, though. I don't know if they have one, but I'm not inclined to buy any."

"Yeah, freemium models like that are actually banned in my world because they exploit a few people who get overly attached to virtual goods to pay for the average subscriber. If it has a premium currency I don't want to play it."

"Good girl." Sable ruffles her hair fondly and hugs her. "General warning, though, gamer culture here is very male-dominated, and sometimes a bit unpleasant, especially toward girls."

"Oh. Your world is messed up about sex in so many ways, huh?"

She exhales and then frowns. "- actually, this is one where it might be my world that's weird. About how many men out of ten in your world choose to become girls?"

"Best guess off the top of my head, transgender folks are something like one to three percent? Wikipedia probably has anything on the subject."

"Oh. On my world it's one in two just about."

"Wow. Sounds like your version of me is probably having a better time, if she's trans too. If the same mysterious transformation happened to her, society was pretty well-equipped to deal, and if it didn't, there was probably plenty of good medical care to do it the slow way."

Audrey nods. 

"Is it going to be a problem that I have a penis?"

"Nope. It's an argument for home-schooling you, given that school-age children will bully each other about basically anything and transness is poorly understood by most people, and formal schooling typically means phys-ed classes and changing into gym clothes in the locker room, but home-schooling dodges most of the ways possible jerks could find out."

Then she frowns. "Well, to be clear, there are plenty of dumbasses in the world who will cause trouble if they find out, but your world's transition care is apparently good enough that I had little chance of figuring it out without you telling me."

"On the plus side, the state we live in has a lower proportion of those jerks than basically anywhere else in the country."

"It was really obvious when all my facets came in girls, so my twenty year old self informs me I got a girl puberty instead of a boy one rather than after a boy one, and that tends to produce really good results. Some people still aren't so lucky on my world but it's definitely broadly known enough to be a thing. And also I think the magic is cheating a little, I didn't look this much of a girl at twelve originally."

Sable grins and holds out a fist for a fistbump. "Dunno if y'all fistbump on Terra, but yay for being cheating cheaters who cheat."

She giggles and bumps fists. "Thank you," she says. "You're quite possibly a literal lifesaver."

Sable pulls Audrey into a tight hug. "Glad to, sweetheart. Absolutely glad to."

She hugs back, tight tight tight. 

Then...

"So, um, any other things... I've lost the plot, there's just too much to keep track of. Um. I think that's everything genuinely urgent? Probably?"