Gary Brandt delivers his most intimate chapter yet from The Dimension Of Mind Dot Com, where we finally get quality one-on-one time between Ella and Helana.
It's Monday night, and for the first time since that life-changing sleepover, it's 'just us'—no Eileen or Roxana, no school drama, just a thirteen-year-old girl and her interdimensional best friend having the kind of deep conversation that changes everything.
What starts as typical teenage curiosity ('Do you have a boyfriend?') quickly evolves into mind-bending revelations about the nature of existence itself.
Helana explains they're all part of a 'vast royal family' as children of the One Infinite Creator, with angels as servants who can't override their free will but are always ready to help.
When Ella questions why terrible things happen if they have angelic protection, Helana suggests something feels 'off' about this universe—something they're meant to help fix when they're older, guided by their angels.
But the real emotional core comes when Helana reveals she's essentially a runaway who was only supposed to visit for a moment before Ella trapped her, and now she's in trouble back home.
This leads to one of the most beautiful moments in the series: Ella, through tears, releases Helana from any obligation to stay because 'I love you, so I can't keep you here against your will.' It's that moment when Ella actually says 'I love you!' that hits both girls like lightning—she didn't realize she felt it until the words came out, and Helana describes the energy burst from love as 'almost intoxicating.' The technical stuff about Energy Encoding versus Chemical Encoding, dimensions, and how Helana was born when her parents' vibrational 'songs' merged is fascinating, but what really matters is watching these two souls fall into the deepest friendship imaginable.
Ella's diary entry captures it perfectly: 'I just fell in love with a girl from another dimension! It's amazing but scary.' Brandt masterfully balances cosmic concepts with the raw emotional reality of thirteen-year-old girls discovering that love—even interdimensional love—changes everything.