"That's possible. Do you have any other evidence that someone is running around making universes for fun and profit?"

"Not particularly."

"Because that would be very interesting if somebody was."

"Sure," she says, shrugging, "but I haven't the foggiest notion how one would go looking for them if there was."

"Do something really loud in their video game environment."

"Well, when I left, the fantastically biokinetic demon was examining one of the little monsters to see how it worked."

"Might go somewhere, depending on what he turns up."

"Maybe. Not sure what else we could do. The place doesn't have magnetic fields for me to use to rend it and Edie can't even telepathize with the meat statues."

"Meat statues?"

"NPCs."

"No kidding. Especially since they get our names somehow."

"Oh dear."

"They addressed the demon and the dragon as 'confused silence.'"

"...Did they say the words 'confused silence', or just pause?"

"Paused. In a confused-looking fashion."

"You lead an exciting life."

"My sister spontaneously falling for an extradimensional non-evil demon is definitely the weirdest thing to have happened for a long time."

"Controlling for 'extradimensional' being an applicable adjective to anything, love at first sight is not as weird as video game land, I think."

"In your life, maybe. Improbable universes happen to us. And she hadn't laid eyes on him yet."

"Love at first - adjacency. Whatever."

"The fact remains that strange universes are a lot more common than my sister falling in love."

"Sure. I want to go universe-hopping! It sounds fun and educational."

"Mmmaybe. The kind of interdimensional travel we have relies pretty heavily on my mutation, so we'd pretty much have to take you with us, and...no offense, but I'm not sure I want to play taxi to someone who's just being a tourist and might not get along with my sister very well."

"Not getting along with your sister is... a point. But I can make myself useful, I wasn't planning to just take photos."