This was her fortress.

Underbridge Manor had been breached by the psychic network that call themselves the Bee People. That was back a few months ago during a dimensional particularity that caused a small singularity to begin forming in her subconscious.

She wasn't sure if it was true she had been fed the psychic jelly and had gone through an especially odd time where a psychic bee larva laid inside her had gone viral on the collective subconscious and caused all sorts of disturbances that had started to bleed into other realities.

Not that starting your own hivemind is a terrible thing per se. She just had a lot of other things to do and the hive made it tougher to focus on her work. Not only that, but since that Seattle already had quite a fine hive going, being viral caught the attention of the Hivequeen.

A constant battle began, one that she didn't even want to be a part of.

This had put her into a state in which she began to lose control of her dimensional travel, and as you must imagine that becomes dangerous rather quickly.

While she was traveling, she visited a great number of new parallel worlds, some completely uncharted by the Chordists, which meant she was essentially stranded in spacetimes she didn't know anything about.

Of course, she made it back to a relatively familliar version of Earth in the end, not quite Sax and Violins, but close enough for our intrepid heroine for now. At least she was back on charted territory again!

But this time, she would create a new defense against the Bee People back at her haven, Underbridge.

The old key wasn't useful to her any more, but maybe someone would want it as a decorative bauble?