"He just appeared earlier. And then was kinda annoying, and then he didn't disappear and I didn't disappear, and so apparently it wasn't teleportation. Duplication or something."

"...so is one of you going to disappear any minute?"

"It's possible. But we've both been around for like forty minutes by now, so." He shrugs.

".....so there might just be two of you indefinitely?"

"Also possible! I have very little idea about any of this, but last time he appeared, I disappeared after like twenty seconds, and this time, I haven't yet, so," he shrugs again.

"...what if you can both disappear?"

"… Then hopefully we don't both do it at once because that'd be horrific unless we later pop into existence?"

Blue doesn't look like he likes that thought.

He looks very much like he dislikes that thought, in fact.

"This is really weird," she says. "I wouldn't be too surprised if there were some breeder fairy kind that worked sort of like this but you're not fairies."

"I mean, I'm pretty sure I'm not, on account of the fact that I remember living my whole life as a Rhune back on my world, but I did literally just appear in existence here looking into a lake and then– weird magic stuff."

"… And I spontaneously appeared in your head. With weird magic stuff. Uh– we don't have wings, though, so unless we're some really weird type? And came into being without the common knowledge thing. And I'm probably forgetting some other things we've done to rule it out– like, orders don't work between us, I checked that just in case."

"Fairies all have wings, but breeders don't get the common knowledge. But orders work between any pair given name knowledge."

"… Well, I don't have his name, but he has mine and he tried to get me to wave. It didn't work, so, not fairies, okay."

"I didn't really think you were."

"Yeah. Seems a bit– weird, though, that I went my whole life without anything really weird happening, looked at a weird lake, and found myself in Fairyland where I spontaneously developed a second thing in my head and also got– probably duplication."

"Care to try disappearing? We can see if it's on-demand."

"Or, you know, you could."

"Anything in common between the times it's happened?"

"… One time I was in the dirt and Yellow was ordering me, the other time I was in my room in the mortal world. So. Not really."

"I appeared just fine both times. Not right next to him, but close-ish and unharmed and whatever, so." Shrug.

"You should have more data on what makes you switch within one body, any ideas about that yet?"

"When he gets a bit too boring, or if a bit too much time passes, I sometimes appear."

Purple smiles at Blue, a bit viciously. "And then I'm around the rest of the time."

"...what provokes a Blue-to-Purple switch?"

"Apparently mid-conversation when I'm expecting him to maybe appear, that's happened a couple of times. Other than that—"