She considers this.

"That's a kind of a bold claim but I can't immediately figure out what you'd get out of lying about it if it weren't true--that you currently know, anyway--and things are weird and coincidental enough already to make it more plausible than otherwise."

"I don't usually tell people."

"...Is that what got you killed."

"I taught summoning for a bit and I think one of the daeva I summoned identified me to some guy with economic interests in secrecy and he walked right into my classroom and shot me in the head."

"That's awful and I'm really sorry it happened to you."

"Well, then I got to be a demon."

"Woulda been a demon if you had died less unpleasantly too."

"Yeah. Well. It was fast."

"There is that."

"Anyway, your Earth is slightly earlier than mine - ours, if we're from the same one - so there might be another me, but I'm not sure what that nets you."

"Well, I actually went there while trying to figure out the summoner problem, and met a living summoner with my same surname and parents with names identical to mine who...was basically like a mishmash of my sister and I in a lot of ways."

"...huh. I'm not sure whether to expect you have a me or a variant of me or what then."

"Yeah, the whole thing is really weird and I've been more worried about evacuating the planet the evil demon's on than figuring shit out."

"Reasonable."

"If we did think of a way to get racist daeva out of Heaven/Hell concordances maybe I could use it on Melkor, that'd be something," she snorts.

"Melkor?"

"The demon whose summoner's buried in the Earth and whose planet we're trying to evacuate," she clarifies.

"Okay, maybe this is a coincidence but my war involved a guy named Melkor. He's not a demon though, he's a sorta magic thing."

"Huh. Probably made communication less of a pain, he's the asshole I'm protecting my mail against."

"...The other fourteen loose lizard-kangaroo daeva call themselves the Valar."

"The other fourteen sorta magic things called themselves that."

"My summoner's genius father's name is Feanaro."

"I know one of those."

"This is bizarre."

"No kidding."

"If you ever get information from the universe I'm summoned to, you should just know ahead of time that I did not kill anyone, the Valar lied about that."