"Still better than Kirkwall."

"Ha. Granted."

She laughs. "Let's explore! That head makes me think something interesting is happening locally."

"Yes, it is rather gruesome."

And forward, to stick her head out of the alley - it opens to a ruined courtyard, of a good but not grand size, sheltered from the rest of the city by thick overgrowth.

And is home to a number of shambling corpses, which turn to the visitor even as a red-skinned woman with pointed ears and a whiplike tail emerges from a tent in a far corner.

That is a very familiar face even under all the red!

She grins. "Hello!"

"Where in the Nine Hells did you come from?"

The Keres follows Hisame out.

"...and why are you a human version of me?"

"We're interdimensional travelers! Apparently there's multiple versions of some people across worlds."

"I have never heard of that happening across any of the planes I am familiar with."

"We're probably from farther than those planes, but my theory is there's someone omnipotent or close enough messing with things."

"Bah. Gods."

She laughs. "I've met some nice ones!"

"Uh huh."

"What sort of person are you? My home world only had humans, though we've seen a few other types in our travels."

"A tiefling. An admixture of human and demonic influence."

"Cool!" She bounces a little. "Is there anything we can help you with? We've been looking for something to do, after all, and I like helping versions of you."

"...Possibly. There is an underground complex below this city that a certain wizard has claimed. I am planning to kill this wizard because they are slowly siphoning off all the loose souls in the vicinity, including my own."

"How rude! Fortunately, we're quite talented at killing things."

She focuses on the area with her Rinnegan...

And suddenly seems quite concerned.

"What types of things do wizards do?"

"Magic things. It's a fairly broad category, especially for ones as powerful as this."

"Fair. This one seems to be screwing with a more broad range of souls than 'local.' Can wizards teleport? Conjure arbitrary material objects? Move and react faster than the speed of sound? Trap things in other things? Turn things into other things? Resurrect people?"

"Yes, yes, no, yes, yes, not fully."