I was going to do that anyway, but now that I have permission...
"I think it may be somewhat early to assume that it doesn't," Jamie said, mentally thumbing through the theories related to alternate universes that she remembered from her time studying such things. There was one, she was sure, that would help her account for this location, and learn how to escape. "Continue to agonize over returning home if you'd like, but I think that the wisest course of action is to settle in, and make the best of things."
She watched him closely, adjusting her wrist to give him a better angle. "What is it that has you so intimately tied to your particular reality? You hardly speak of it as a place that is worth returning to."