"This highway goes through the Crow reservation," supplies Brian.

"The highway goes through the Crow reservation," repeats Daria, "if that tells you anything."

"We're in New York. One second..." There's the sound of some typing on her end of the line, and then she adds, "There's an airport in Billings with flights to New York this evening, I can get you tickets, though I'm not sure if you have identification the system will accept. It might be easier if we come over there, but we're both usually busy, it'll take a few days to clear our schedule."

Mariam puts her on speaker when it becomes clear they'll need to include Jackson and Brian in the conversation.

"There isn't any chance we could persuade you to stick around being people with credit cards that work and legal identities here for us until - wow this is weird - Mariam and Daria show up? We'll need hotel rooms and so on, even if Mariam's paying I'm not sure how this would work. Oh," to the other Mariam, "we got picked up by some people, they're giving us a ride, we ended up by the road in the middle of nowhere."

"We're going to Vancouver," says Brian. "I don't mind helping you out."

"Thanks, we really appreciate it."

"You're welcome," says Brian. "Do you need us to detour?"

"I assume you don't want to drive us all the way to New York. I think Billings still works fine - a couple days there, it looks like, if nothing else comes up - is there anyone in the area you know, other me? I really don't want to make them stay with us until you can fly over here."

"There's a couple people that're at least closer than the east coast. I'll ask Daria, her friends tend to be the kind of people that'd kill to meet visitors from another dimension."

"We weren't gonna stay in Billings," says Jackson.

"Oh, sorry, misunderstood you earlier. Then we'd appreciate if you could check us into a hotel room."

"Yeah, sure," says Brian.

"Daria says she's asking around, she can't precog it right now, she was working all day and forgot to eat, but she should know in half an hour or so. When will you get to Billings?"

"In like two hours," says Brian.

"All right. Daria should have an answer by then, is it okay if I give them this number if we find anyone? Worst case scenario I figure out how to get you a hotel remotely or hire someone or something, it shouldn't be too hard."

"Yeah, it's all right," says Brian, "just don't give it to anybody who robocalls."

"As far I know, none of her friends are robots."

"Cool."

"Can the - the you people - can they pay back the hotel?" Jackson wonders.

"The her people will pay back the hotel," says Mariam, laughing.

"They can send a check," says Jackson, and he gives Brian's address and full name.

She repeats it back to confirm she has it right.

"I think that's - it, really - god this weird."

"You could ask 'em what their roles are," suggests Jackson.

"I'm a dom, Daria's a sub."

"Seriously?"