Well, dang it, dude. If you read that first, you could have just linked it, then my lazy *** could have just up-voted you instead of taking the time to write all that out...
Seriously, though, if it isn't the real Laurel(i.e. dream/hallucination/mimic), I will be really annoyed. I mean, I'll take another Earth Laurel, but not it was just a vision.