It is particularly embarrassing that this happened to her after explicitly thinking about Science Maniac Verrez because this is exactly the sort of thing that happens to Verrez in every. single. book.

No.  Wait.  This literally actually does happen to Verrez.  That time Verrez has managed to get into an alien spacecraft that's reading his mind, and Verrez tries to use a poorly phrased search query that should have teleported him into the largest black hole in the universe, but the spacecraft is reading his intent so it takes him to the alien homeworld instead, which Verrez only works that out afterwards.

...Does the pseudonymous author of Science Maniac Verrez have a surprising amount of actual experience in trying to do Manic Science and shooting theirself in the foot during their early days, or is Thellim just that bad at this?

It is particularly embarrassing that this happened to her after explicitly thinking about Science Maniac Verrez because this is exactly the sort of thing that happens to Verrez in every. single. book.

No.  Wait.  This literally actually does happen to Verrez.  That time Verrez has managed to get into an alien spacecraft that's reading his mind, and Verrez tries to use a poorly phrased search query that should have teleported him into the largest black hole in the universe, but the spacecraft is reading his intent so it takes him to the alien homeworld instead, as Verrez only realizes afterwards, of course.

...Does the pseudonymous author of Science Maniac Verrez have a surprising amount of actual experience in trying to do Manic Science and shooting theirself in the foot during their early days, or is Thellim just that bad at this?

It is particularly embarrassing that this happened to her after explicitly thinking about Science Maniac Verrez because this is exactly the sort of thing that happens to Verrez in every. single. book.

No.  Wait.  This literally actually does happen to Verrez.  That time Verrez has managed to get into an alien spacecraft that's reading his mind, and Verrez tries to use a poorly phrased search query that should have teleported him into the largest black hole in the universe, but the spacecraft is reading his intent so it takes him to the alien homeworld instead.  As Verrez only realizes afterwards, of course.

...Does the pseudonymous author of Science Maniac Verrez have a surprising amount of actual experience in trying to do Manic Science and shooting theirself in the foot during their early days, or is Thellim just that bad at this?

It is particularly embarrassing that this happened to her after explicitly thinking about Science Maniac Verrez because this is exactly the sort of thing that happens to Verrez in every. single. book.

No.  Wait.  This literally actually does happen to Verrez.  That time Verrez has managed to get into an alien spacecraft that's reading his mind, and Verrez tries to use a poorly phrased command that should have teleported him into the largest black hole in the universe, but the spacecraft is reading his intent so it takes him to the alien homeworld instead.  As Verrez only realizes afterwards, of course.

...Does the pseudonymous author of Science Maniac Verrez have a surprising amount of actual experience in trying to do Manic Science and shooting theirself in the foot during their early days, or is Thellim just that bad at this?

It is particularly embarrassing that this happened to her after explicitly thinking about Science Maniac Verrez because this is exactly the sort of thing that happens to Verrez in every. single. book.

No.  Wait.  This literally actually does happen to Verrez.  That time Verrez has managed to get into an alien spacecraft, and Verrez tries to use a poorly phrased command in the elaborate command language he thinks he's discovering, which should have teleported him into the largest black hole in the universe, but the spacecraft was actually just reading his intent the whole time so it takes him to the alien homeworld instead.  As Verrez only realizes afterwards, of course.

...Does the pseudonymous author of Science Maniac Verrez have a surprising amount of actual experience in trying to do Manic Science and shooting theirself in the foot during their early days, or is Thellim just that bad at this?

It is particularly embarrassing that this happened to her after explicitly thinking about Science Maniac Verrez because this is exactly the sort of thing that happens to Verrez in every. single. book.

No.  Wait.  This literally actually does happen to Verrez.  That time Verrez has managed to get into an alien spacecraft, and Verrez tries to use a poorly phrased search query in the elaborate command language he thinks he's discovering, which should have teleported him into the largest black hole in the universe, but the spacecraft was actually just reading his intent the whole time so it takes him to the alien homeworld instead.  As Verrez only realizes afterwards, of course.

...Does the pseudonymous author of Science Maniac Verrez have a surprising amount of actual experience in trying to do Manic Science and shooting theirself in the foot during their early days, or is Thellim just that bad at this?