The Soveris nodded. "Close your eyes. Take a deep breath." Pear followed along, her chest puffing out again. "Inhale. Savor it. Exhale.
"In that one breath, you can smell dozens of scents the likes you've never smelled before. Sweet things, earthy things, flowery things, metallic things. Each of those scents is the scent of a different world. Each of us here has ties to another universe, another plane of existence. But some force has brought us all together. Here."
The little white-and-blue Kuhna gazed up at her in awe. "You can tell that stuff just by smellin'? What kinda gem does THAT take?"