The answer is no.
I didn't want that to have to be something Hope did every time she granted temporary hospitality, but I did want the reveal to be a bit dramatic. Thanks to the power of silliness, we get both outcomes.
Another Layer of Reality
The first panel didn't originally have anything clarifying that it was another layer of reality, but then I started clarifying that in this very commentary, and thought "wait a minute. This actually matters. If I feel the need to clarify it here, it should DEFINITELY be in the comic."
So I added the second-to-last word bubble in panel one, and slightly reworded the last bubble (basically just changing an "it" to "the entrance").
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