"Is that okay?"

"Yeah, that's fine."

So these people will teleport her and Hagan back to a nice, pretty underground room somewhere, and then depart to get everyone else taken to Sothis.

"Uh. Sorry about that?"

"Obviously not your fault," he says after a pause.

"I am so sorry. You don't look like any of the alternate universe versions of you so we couldn't recognize you through the scry. Though I don't know how much that would have helped."

"There are alternate universe versions of me, too? - are they cool?"

"I don't know much about the other ones but mine's, uh, a C-list action film lead if I assume you're the one with the similar name. You third in birth order?"

"Yes. What is an action film?"

"A movie is like a play but you... record it as though with a time-shifted scry you can reuse indefinitely, I guess? Action is the genre, he plays characters who get into a lot of fights."

He looks slightly disappointed. "Okay."

"Sorry. Aitim will be able to tell you more?"

"Aitim?"

"Us-type people and also pharaoh-type people are appearing. Aitim is the pharaoh-type person from my world. We didn't know each other before but I follow politics so I know some things about him and less about his family."

"I guess this doesn't sound likely to interfere with Belmarniss's plans."

"We have only speculative extrapolations about Belmarniss's plans."

"Yeah? Whaddaya got?"

"Entire afterlife system indefensible, replace wholesale?"

"I think I'm gonna like you."

" - anyone actually want me or are you just obliged to lock me up when you see me," he asks a guard.

        "I don't think you're needed for anything, your grace."

"Great."

"Obliged to lock you up when they see you?"

"There are a lot of rules constraining the behavior of the Osirian royal family. 'm not allowed to leave without having gotten my plans approved by security. I didn't, so -"

"Wow."

"Sorry."

"Not your fault. Have fun with your interdimensional reunion thing."