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 Laura's superiors later sent her to [[Slough]] to investigate the cultists worshipping the [[Tenth Lord Grell]], based on a notion that a young woman would be “inconspicuous”, which Laura found rather patronising. The day before, she got a phone call from [[Jenny Cornelius]], who had received a tip-off from [[Crowley#In Jenny Cornelius's world|alternative means]], and unsuccessfully tried to convince Jenny to stay out of Slough. After finding the right building, Laura was, however, captured and tied up in a storeroom. Jenny defeated Lord Grallyx, though not before he set the building on fire, and used her powers to unlock the door, finding Laura halfway through getting out of her bindings by herself. Because Jenny didn't want Laura's bosses to know about her [[shift]]ing abilities, she took care to make up a plausible cover story before she used them in Laura's vicinity, claiming to Laura that she was actually using hypnotism to make her forget the means by which they escaped their dire circumstances (rather than them having genuinely teleported to the safety of Laura's home in the blink of an eye). Laura was personally unconvinced but agreed to write as much in her report, which she headed off to type, though promising to spend the night with Jenny as soon as she was done. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birds and Snakes (short story)|Birds and Snakes]]'')
+=== On Mystepolia ===
+[[File:Laura Drake in The Demon and the Butterfly.png|thumb|left|250px|This version of Laura Drake as she appeared shortly before the momentous demo of the [[Triangular Bisector]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Demon and the Butterfly (comic story)|The Demon and the Butterfly]]'')]]One version of Laura was native to the politically-independent island of [[Mystepolia]] in [[Universe (Jenny and the Multiverse)|one universe]]. Like the other [[human]]s of this universe, she had four fingers on each hands. She appeared as a young, short woman with pale skin and big curly red hair. She wore thick round rimless glasses and golden earrings, as well as a mauve version of a classic Howie-style labcoat. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Demon and the Butterfly (comic story)|The Demon and the Butterfly]]'')
+==== Youth ====
+Primarily a physics graduate, Laura spent five years working on the [[Triangular Bisector]] before she organised an official demonstration of its powers, during which she also designed the [[Bubblecopter]], and tested the Bisector multiple times without incident. Despite her stylings, she was keen not to be perceived as a mad scientist or a danger to others, but her faith in herself was fragile, and was once shaken by someone called [[Doctor Cartwright]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Demon and the Butterfly (comic story)|The Demon and the Butterfly]]'')
+==== The demo ====
+[[File:Jenny Everywhere and Laura Drake in The Demon and the Butterfly.png|thumb|right|310px|[[Jenny Everywhere#On Mystepolia|Jenny]] using her [[Shift|powers]] for the first time as a baffled Laura looks on. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Demon and the Butterfly (comic story)|The Demon and the Butterfly]]'')]]As the endpoint of five years of research, Laura eventually completed the [[Triangular Bisector]]. By that point, she was dating [[Jenny Everywhere#On Mystepolia|Jenny]]. It was intended to open a small portal to the heart of an alien sun in [[Universe (The Demon and the Butterfly)|another dimension]] and safely funnel powers from it. It wasn't designed to allow physical beings to travel between the dimensions. However, when Laura organised an official demo at the Museum, [[Lord Grallyx#Summoned to Mystepolia|Lord Grallyx]], a demonic being who had been imprisoned in the heart of the star Laura had selected, pushed his way through, damaging the Bisector in the process. Jenny quickly climbed onto the stage, helping to steady Laura, who was spiraling into irrational guilt. After calming her down, Jenny tried to use the Bisector again to summon the [[Disciples of Golden Light]] so they could trap Grallyx again, but it backfired and she received a blast of [[shifter energy]] which briefly knocked her out. However, she quickly woke up, newly-infused with the energy, which allowed her to start shifting objects from other universes into her grasp.
+Jenny and Laura chased after Grallyx in Laura's [[Bubblecopter]], whereupon they got Grallyx's attention and Jenny used a great discharge of shifter energy to summon a huge amount of water atop Grallyx, which doused him and extinguished his fire, leaving only a small and very confused lizard. Some time later, they went over the event back in Laura's room, with Laura explaining that the news coverage of the incident had actually gotten her more investors to further develop her invention, and also pointing out that they had received thanks from [[Jimmy Westeron|the soldier]] whom Grallyx had been about to kill when Laura and Jenny swept in. Jenny continued to claim to Laura that her powers had completely faded after the large discharge of energy she used to defeat Grallyx, which was secretly not the case. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Demon and the Butterfly (comic story)|The Demon and the Butterfly]]'')
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