For instance, it is well-known that humans are social creatures. A human bereft of interaction with other humans for any length of time will go quite, quite mad. It is also known, however, that the human mind is extremely resilient, and can survive surprising levels of damage and recover, given love and affection. And, indeed, the mind can develop mechanisms with which to cope with even the harshest of stresses, if flexible enough.
And then, there are things that, in at least one universe, explaining seriously wound render most students of human psychology to consider you utterly insane. For instance, consider magic. Now, while Nabiki might be a student of human psychology, she would not be one of those to whom a belief in magic would constitute insanity; after all, we never consider ourselves insane, and it would be simply absurd to doubt the evidence of one's own eyes. And therefore, the following explanation would sound perfectly sane to her, which is fortunate, as it is, after all, rather directly applicable to her current circumstances.
Magic, you see, is a part of nature, intimately tied with living things. They create it, but it also comes from other sources. However, the magic requires a will, and under normal circumstances, the only things that possess a will are either living, or the direct result of the intervention of living things. Thus, in a dimension where there is no living things, magic would simply accumulate. As we all know, the more of something there is, the easier it is to notice, and magic is no exception. So, for instance, if someone who was already predisposed to believing in magic should end up on their own in a dimension that has been lifeless for some time, they might wind up noticing it rather easily.
And, of course, the ability to perceive something is the most important step towards manipulating it.
Now, there's one other aspect of magic that applies to dimensional travellers specifically. You see, a magic-user can only use the magic of a given dimension while within that dimension, or between dimensions altogether, bar the rare exception of dimensions linked via portals. Most magical travellers will rarely notice this; after all, most dimensions have rather similar ambient magic levels, and if one's power is tied to a place, that place will most likely have an analogue that can still be drawn from.
And now that we're done with this brief digression into the nature of things, let's look back in on Nabiki, who:
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