"Yeah, most of the people here are from one Earth or another unless they were born here or in a different universe where there isn't an Earth. My mother's Earth had magic though, she's a technomage." Juliet was very proud of her family, even if her talents lie more with music than magic or technology.
She saw the puzzled expression and realized the other mermaid probably wouldn't be impressed at all the fancy tech running around the island. So much for being the cool kid with the neat toys. "Well, yeah." She nodded, trying not to show her own disappointment. "Not face to face, obviously. But you can call people with it and talk to them, or send them a text message through it, or browse the internet. It's a powerful machine in a tiny package. People went to Earth's moon with less processing power than this has."
She typed out a quick message to her family and Cris to demonstrate the tech and then looked back at Cora. "You can call people with a conch shell? That's so cool! How do you do it? Can you teach me?"