"Sorry to be in the way," says Annie.

"I'm more worried about you than that."

"Well, none of my side effects seem to be mutually fatal, so there's that."

"Is that a thing that happens?"

"It could. If one makes you need twenty hours of sleep and one makes you an insomniac, or something like that."

"What side effects are you getting?"

"I am uncomfortably hot, I have been teleported to another universe and hope it only does that once, I'm blind and deaf which might be one or two things, and I think explaining the last one might distract you from your lethal combat situation which I don't want to do."

"Noted. As in it's interesting, disturbing or some third thing?"

"It's complicated."

"Okay, you can tell us later once we've dealt with this thing. Or not, if you'd rather find someone else to help you."

"I'll tell you," she says.

"Okay. Are you hungry? We have some food. Not a lot, but not nothing."

"Not very. I had breakfast an hour ago."

"Okay. Let us know if you need anything, besides the obvious resource limitations."

Oh she needs so many things. "Okay."

"Oh--fair warning, you don't know me--I can read minds. I don't, not without permission, and doing it is really visible, but you should know."

"...I can't see, so. I'll just have to take your word for not doing it without permission."

"Right, blind, I forgot. Um, you said you had another sense? I summon these mirror-things, it's not just that I glow or whatever."

"If they're not the same texture as air I'll probably be able to detect them."

"They're not the same texture as air."

"Okay. Thank you for warning me."

"I'm pretty sure none of these people have a way to possess me or anything and I wouldn't do it but just in case you deserve to know."

"...possess you?"

"Copy my powers or control my body--I should be safe from anything that affects my mind but there's stuff that can do that too. This stuff is all really rare but you know what they say about the emergency you're prepared for."

Nod.