"That would be interesting."

"Hopefully challenging bog zombies. If I take down another army without breaking a sweat so soon I might cry."

"I don't believe there are any armies in the vicinity."

"Good. I look dreadful when I cry, you know."

"I'll endeavor to never give you cause to."

Quick kiss. "Thank you, darling."

"A touching sentiment," comes a voice from behind the group. It echoes with a different quality than the Keres', as though one voice is speaking in all the languages the listener knows, and more besides. For all that, it's crystal clear and supremely easy to understand. The face to which the voice belongs is quite familiar. "Welcome, travelers, to my domain."

" - Why do you look like my girlfriend."

"You might as well ask why she looks like me." The woman smiles. "But I will spare you the confusion and tell you. It is because we are the same person, as is she." She gestures at Eliana. "Born into different worlds and different circumstances. This one and you are also of a kind," she indicates Hisame and Mora. "A most curious gathering. Beyond your means of arrival, this is why I greet you in person, as it were."

"! More of us! Like Mara had been one of me! - That's a person we left, in the last world."

She is very delighted about the 'more of her girlfriend.' Even if her girlfriend has a rather different opinion on distinction of self and alt.

Eliana is eyeing the Keres.

Who is eyeing her right back.

"How fascinating. Introductions, then. I am Ellayania, Goddess of Libraries and Fen. The land you stand upon now is my domain, my self."

"Ooh, a goddess. I want a goddess alt..."

"What am I, chopped liver?" mutters the not actually a goddess and probably more an eldritch abomination alt. "Also, somehow not surprised."

"You're more a terrifying insult against reality," Hisame says, cheerfully.

"Please refrain from insulting reality too egregiously while within my domain," the goddess says. "I would feel it most keenly."

"I'll restrain myself. Somehow."

"Is there a me here?" Hisame asks, which is definitely the relevant part here.

"If there is, I have not met her. But the world is vast, and I am only one small part of it."

"We should find you a me! If not here, then in another world."

"I appreciate the thought. But I am the landscape around you far more than I am this body. I do not... require the same sorts of experiences."

"Aw. Nothing you'd need of a human, then?"

"Beyond the worship I ask of any who would settle here, no. I have one acolyte already who is quite sufficient to the needs here."

"Huh. I suppose this is a rather peaceful world, then?"