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She is slower than the mirror-faced snake, and for some reason it is choosing to chase her, and she is not in dense enough forest to lose it by going up a tree or between a couple too narrowly spaced for it. So it catches her before emergency services can turn up.

And then she is somewhere else, in a not particularly attractive room next to a person who looks sort of off somehow.

"Excuse me," she says, taking a step out of his personal space.

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"Makel, Telkam, Kantil, Kefin, Amlas, Amel."

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"Pretty close. Also matches which names they all go by - mothernames in all cases except Curufinwë."

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"My brothers are Masaharta, Telcar, Merenre, Sa-Anar, Ankhu, Apepi. ...maybe we should have someone comparing etymologies, really."

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"Maybe. This country is Osirion?"

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"Yes. Yours is Anitam?"

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"The etymologies are at least sometimes alike, Fëanáro means sprit of fire and Fe-Anar tells me his name means sun-souled."

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"Anitam was controlled until my grandfather's day by the Oahk Empire -"

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"We were ruled by Qadira, across the ocean from here."

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An attendant announces the prince Hemaka. 

He kneels (not to the floor) and then looks around, a little bewildered. 

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"I should've gotten you sooner before there was mountains of explanation, but it's a little bit of a fragile security situation and I'm not at all sure it won't end with all of us murdered by someone that one of us offended."

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"Well if that happens I should think you'd be entitled to at least a week of vacation. We could tour that district of Axis with the octopus people."

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"I can't decline resurrections for a week!"

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"Until the mysterious security situation has been resolved," he says confidently. "You could quite reasonably refuse resurrections until the mysterious security situation is resolved."

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" - maybe. This is Aitim, this is Mirelótë, this is Anaander. Aitim and Anaander are both oddly similar to me in too many ways for it to be a coincidence, and they have a you - had a you in Anaander's case - and I'm hoping that yous have more marked similarities than mes."

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"What happened to Anaander's - wife, I presume?"

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"Why would you presume that?"

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"Well it's difficult to imagine the pharaoh as a woman but it's more difficult to imagine the pharaoh as a woman and I as her husband?"

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"She's evil. Murdered an astonishing number of people for no reason."

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"You keep pointing this out when I say true things it has no bearing on."

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"I feel like it's important that you're not participating in a cooperative spirit here."

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"Suggesting delaying resurrections until the mysterious security situation is resolved is markedly Findekáno-esque, congratulations."

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"Thank you? I think?"

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"I think it's very romantic that I find you in lots of different universes."

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