[ WP ] A portal to a fantasy-like land opens in the middle of New York City and exiles start coming through .

*Ok, I'll have a go at this. This is my first time and English is not my main language so... be gentle: ) * 
 
 It was a day like any other. People were going on about their business, each with their own thoughts, each one indifferent to one another. Then they all stopped to look at the globe of light. Some of them looked at those closest to them, in search of an answer. Others just stared at globe, slowly growing to be the size of an automobile, then a bus, then finally a small home. The light dimmed and through it was a passage to... somewhere else. The other side was packed with people, mostly peasants, just as confused as the people on our side. They looked at us, and we looked back a them. Then they came through. 
 
 The news talked about it for weeks. It was definitely a portal, one that led to another world. The people, the ones who came through, were being exiled from their small town after the invasion from the army of a neighbouring kingdom. Most of them looked like us, and their DNA was extremely similar to ours, so much that we were deemed to compatible with them. We sent scouts on the other side, scientists and soldiers, to inspect the world beyond, to decide if it was a risk. 
 
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 `` Sir, the opportunity is too big to pass up'', said the General while looking at the numbers floating on the big, wall-mounted screen. 
 
 `` That world, it's so similar to ours. And its population, even with the technology they possess, what they call'magic', they're a thousand years beyond us in so many fields''. The Scientist was standing by the general on this. `` They have a world that is mostly unpopulated, rich of resources and materials that we have never even imagined before. What they used to open that portal, that green rock they pulverize, it defies everything we know about physics. Its quantum properties alone are going to leap us forward a thousand years...'' 
 
 `` I know''. The President looked preoccupied. 
 
 `` Even after we sent that petty king and his army back where he came from, they did n't want to go back. They... they like it here''. The Scientist said. 
 
 `` And we have no problem crushing whatever resistance we may encounter, sir''. The General added. 
 
 `` We do n't have to go to war, General. And we do n't know what the mutated ones can do''. The Scientist was not pleased by the eagerness of the General, and neither was the President. 
 
 `` General, we have sent an army away from a village, and unless we're going to have to defend ourselves, we're not going to take anything by force,'' the President stated starkly. `` Tell me about the mutated ones, Doctor''. 
 
 `` Well, the ones that came through, they call themselves mages,'' the Scientist said, `` I... I would agree with them, at least to a point. They have a mutation, a genetic one, that seems to allow them to create and manipulate very powerful magnetic fields. They can set things on fire, create shock waves, levitate objects... if we did n't know better, we would call it magic as well. And what they can do when they use that green rock... they have opened a wormhole that cuts through the galaxy, and a stable one at that, without even knowing a thing about the laws of gravity, let alone relativity or quantum entanglement...''. 
 
 `` Spare us your bullshit and get to the point, Doctor'', the General intervened, `` how dangerous are they?'' 
 
 `` Well, they... they did with their minds and their limited, even non-existent knowledge what we have n't been able to do with nuclear reactors and particle accelerators. What do you think, General? That said, the ones that have come through, even the mutated ones, are adapting egregiously to our lifestyle and they seem to be very eager to share with us what they know. As I said, what they have is going to take us places we've never imagined before. We just have to... ask.'' 
 
 
 

