[Shaking her head a little bit, smiling:] Well, there isn't really any way to confirm if that is a successful tactic. [Though, come to think of it, some people had disappeared...]

Yes. It seems to be a bit random, though some people with more experience with travel between worlds have remarked that it is similar to their prior experience.

There isn't any magic of the sort I've seen here back in my home world, but...

[She...hasn't actually shown this to anyone else yet, or not formally, anyway. She makes an odd motion with her hands, like she's pantomiming opening a cabinet, and then out of what seems like nowhere pulls out a cut flower still pristine and fresh, as if she were lifting it out of some kind of invisible furniture or container.]