There was an Ingress there, supposedly working. [His tone suggests that "supposedly working" is a dubious description.] Everyone had to go through it with a partner. It didn't send you home: it sent you to some weird combination of the homes of the people who passed through it together... one that was inconsistent with the individual memories of either person. For example, zombies are strictly fictional creations in the world I come from... yet there they were, swarming my company's headquarters, because my companion came from a world that had been overrun with them.

[That's still a subject of exasperation.]

After a few hours, you'd be returned to Amissis-Re, and you'd be able to bring whatever you were carrying with you.