The one is wearing a heavy dark coat and thick boots. She gives you a wave, and smiles a little nervously. "I'm Panacea, better known as Amy."

"And I'm Victoria!" The taller blonde one isn't bothering with a coat, going with a pants-and-short-sleeve-shirt combo that Samora's untrained eye is starting to recognize as the local indoor standard. "We're so glad to meet you. Our mom -- she's a hero too -- told us how you saved all those people in Denver yesterday. And now you're going to be working here, at least for a while? Amazing."

She eyes Samora thoughtfully, lingering on the sword and shield. "I'll just order us a cab real quick, and you two can get acquainted!" She takes a few steps back with a fending little please-wait gesture, and pulls out her own phone.

"Pleased to meet you both! So, Amy, what sort of healing do you do? Or would you rather I went first?"

"Ah, we call it biokinesis.  When I touch someone, I can see all the cells of their body, all their blood, their bones, and I can fix the things that aren't working.  My power helps a lot with understanding it, but it still takes a little while to find all the problems and figure out what to do with them.  It's...intense."

"Wow, that's so complicated! But it must be really thorough. Someone would have told me if you could raise dead people with it, but can you regrow limbs? Can you make people stronger and healthier than they've ever been, or only put them back how they used to be?"

She sighs.  "I can regrow limbs a little, but my power can't just give you a new hand, I have to make a hand out of something else living, so that part can get tricky." And icky. "I can stick them back on if you get to me right after they get chopped off, that's not hard. But yeah, I can make people healthier. I can fix up their eyesight, tone their muscles...I try to do things like that if there's time, especially if they got attacked, or something, just to make it up to them.  It's nice to help."  It's nice to do something more interesting than attaching torn arteries for the millionth time, is what, but honestly her spa-in-a-can routine is starting to get old, too.

"What about you?  I heard it was really fast, but the details didn't make sense."  She has already decided that she will not die of envy when Samora explains it.

"Mine's a lot, hmm, stupider? There's this stuff called positive energy, and dumping it into people can fix a lot of problems but not replace missing parts or cure diseases. And there's a couple of other spells for things like curing diseases or fixing energy drain or raising the dead, and every morning I choose what spells to prepare, but most of them I can turn into more positive energy. So I can fix anything that can be solved with enough positive energy and otherwise it's very limited and hit-or-miss. I wonder what watching someone get healed with positive energy looks like to your power. Maybe you'd be able to, hmm, catch it? And get it to do things it's normally too undirected for."

Snrk.  "I think most powers are stupid that way. We have this Ward Clockblocker who freezes people in time, and nobody knows how that works, including him. He just decides when it should happen, and then it does. He cant even control how long it lasts! My sister takes college classes on powers and she says that's normal, most powers don't need thinking about."

and Amy's doesn't either, really, what's challenging is to get it to stop

Wait, should she have mentioned Clockblocker? Samora will hear about him eventually but it doesn't make a good first impression, does it? If Carol finds out she said that...well, maybe Samora's translation power won't explain the joke.

Wait, raise the dead? "What do you mean, raise the dead? Can I watch?" Wow, way to sound normal, Amy.. "I mean with my power? I probably won't be able to do anything with it. Not with positive energy either, that really sounds like normal power bullshit, no offense. But it'd be interesting." And she really, really needs something interesting in her life.

"I'd be happy to have you watching if the logistics work out! Even if you don't turn out to be able to do anything with it, it's still neat." 

And then Victoria puts away her phone and spins back around.  She only caught the end of that, but it sounds like things are going great. "Hey, the car will meet us at the end of the bridge, past that checkpoint there.  But we've got a few minutes, no rush." She'll turn and start ambling down the force bridge.

It does not take that long to book a cab in Brockton Bay. She wanted to give the healers a chance to talk, and she wanted to give herself a chance to think a little more.

Armsmaster, that dork, said Samora was wearing a "medieval-period costume, including sword and shield". And that was kinda right, she sure is bringing her sword and shield with her to the mall, but the fabric of the shirt-thing she has under her breastplate doesn't look like what you'd get if you asked a good costumer to make you an undershirt, or a bad costumer, either. It just looks like clothes, maybe hand-weaved (handwoven? They both sound wrong). Kinda the cloak too, even though it's so fancy. Victoria knew Samora didn't know about cell phones, and that's one thing, maybe her people just didn't invent them for whatever reason, but now she's thinking the gap goes back a lot further than that.

She'd decided on the way over that she wasn't going to ask Samora any questions about her home planet, just in case it made her homesick. But now she's thinking maybe that won't work, because she doesn't know what Samora will think is weird or confusing or scary, and apparently no one thought to check even though she's talked to like twenty high-rank PRT guys already. She needs a new angle, fast.

"So, Samora," she'll call over her shoulder, "what do you think of our planet so far?" This might lead to her saying "I don't like how you guys get attacked by giant monsters all the time," but if she does then honestly fair, Victoria doesn't like that either.

"Your wealth and technology and disaster response procedures are impressive! Not having wizards or empowered priests or anybody other than humans is very strange. Or perhaps it's strange that both our planets have humans and also that you only have one kind of people."

Okay.  That doesn't sound like Samora's fighting the trauma of being torn from everything she knows and loves, that sounds like she's on an adventure.  Cool.  She decides to risk another question: "A 'wizard', that's another kind of power, like a cleric?" She would love to talk foreign power classifications with the new cape, and she can share their classification scheme to keep it fair. She'll leave the "more than one kind of people" thing for Amy to ask about if she wants.

Amy does want; she replies so fast she actually talks over her sister. "Other kinds of people? Uh, non-human people?"

"Wizardry is a kind of magic you can learn by being very smart and studying a lot; I'm not smart enough to get anywhere with it but some people can get really powerful. And yeah, we have so many kinds of people! Trolls and gnomes and drow and mitflits and morlocks and kobolds and goblins and caligni and urdefhans and elves and dwarves and halflings and crowfolk and catfolk and dragons and that's definitely not all of them--destrachans, I forgot destrachans, and loads of people I've never heard of because they only live in the oceans or the deep Darklands or Tian Xia. Or on other planes, though that doesn't really count as Golarion having them except that they visit."

"Do wizards also heal people or do they do something else?  Are there more kinds of powers, or just those?  We have someone named Myrddin who calls himself a wizard but as far as anyone can tell his powers work the same way everyone else's do."

"That's crazy, that's so many different...species?" It sounds like species; they can't possibly all be interfertile, right? "What are they like?"

How come their visitor had to be a member of the one species she already knows everything about?

Those answers, and the answers to the many excited followup questions, will carry you all the way to the mall.

This is so weird. In a good way! They have different powers! Different kinds of different powers! Everyone thought the alternate Earths were all pretty similar to Earth Bet, and right here right now she's the first one to learn how wrong that is!

Well, not quite; you can learn a lot from a person very quickly if you're running Path simulations of them instead of talking to them.

Ominous interjections aside, you are now standing inside your first ever American mall.  It's still early in the day so there aren't a lot of people around, but it's brightly lit, brightly colored, and full of little shops for your convenience.  Victoria wants to take you clothes shopping, but is there anything else in particular you'd like to see or do?

Oh yes. Samora definitely knows how to go shopping. She is so good at shopping. "So do you guys have any equivalent of magic items? I know I'm only authorized to get clothes right now but I'd like to know what to save up for. And you might have things that I've never even thought were possible."

Blink.  "You usually can't buy tinkertech, it mostly just works for the person who made it."  Let's leave aside, for now, complications like the Dragonslayers; it's not like you can get a Dragonslayer suit at the mall anyway.

Time to Test A Theory!

"I think what they have here is mostly technology. Like your phone, it's not magic but it lets you talk to anyone on Earth, that's pretty good, right?" Later, she will find out what magic items Samora knows about. Maybe she even has some herself! "But take this store," she points to a small shop that just seems to sell posters. "These aren't even technology, really, they're just pictures. But they're cool. The idea is that you pick one you like, and put one up on the wall of your room, so that it feels like your room and not just some barracks somewhere. And of course it doesn't have to be a poster, it can be a lamp or something. It's about making your space, and your life, more pleasant."

Victoria is pretty vague on the material conditions of medieval people, even rich medieval people, but she doesn't think they had this much decoration, and of course it wouldn't be as good either. How is this landing? Is Samora flinching at all at the idea of making a space for herself, staying a long time? Did she overshoot and explain the concept of "posters" to someone who already understands them perfectly?

"The phone is very cool, I'd love to learn about more stuff like that. We have paintings but those don't look painted, they're too smooth and flat. How are they made?" She's not exactly flinching at the concept of staying a long time, she just doesn't have much sense of what she personally wants for mall objects.

"There are machines to press ink onto paper.  There are probably ten thousand other posters just like this one."  Actually she thinks this one might be laser printed, but she doesn't know how that works except that it doesn't involve the cool kind of laser.

Anyway if Samora isn't sure what she wants they should ✨visit✨more✨stores✨. This place has highly decorative lamps! This store sells books and greeting cards! These people have towels, candles, and soaps! That store sells jewelry -- including, yes, lots of diamonds right there in public view. Over there is a big store full of children's toys! That whole cart is just full of sunglasses! Victoria will cut this short if it seems like her guest is getting tired, but she personally is having a great time; she thought she was getting too grown-up to really enjoy the mall, but having someone along who's never seen it before is really enhancing the experience.