"Okay. This place is--not hospitable, even aside from its current inhabitants. If you sense the Black Opal Guardian--a woman with long black hair with a large opal at her throat--or the White Sapphire Guardian--blonde dude with a bracelet with a big clear sapphire set in it on his left wrist--hide behind something. If you sense the Golden Diamond General--well, I don't expect that to happen. But if it does, run."

"I can't sense color. ...Or run."

"There shouldn't be anyone here but us and them. Woman, hide. Man without elaborate armor, hide. Man with elaborate armor--hide harder, I guess."

"Okay." She casts about for somewhere to hide.

There are a number of nastily jagged rocks and a handful of cracks in the floor, some potentially large enough for a person to fit into.

"Should I just hide in advance?"

"Might or might not be worth it. It could take a long time for someone to realize we're here, or that Greenie is missing."

"Okay." Deep breath. "What are your names? I'm Annie."

"I'm Edie Lehnsherr--Psychic Maiden Cerebella--and this is my sister, Emily, Iron Maiden Magnetar."

"I'd be pleased to meet you under less fraught circumstances."

"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."