"...no we don't."

"Yes you do!"

"She's more observant than you," Anaander says smugly.

" - under -"

" - yes, yes."

"Oh!" says Rubelite in Anaander's direction. "It's some you! Only a little bit though."

Anaander nods. "You know me already?"

"I have never met you before unless the rest of me did it VERY recently and unexpectedly! I know what you look like because all of you look the same."

"A little bit of me got stolen here same as a little bit of you, and as all of these people. There's a writeup explaining everything, but it's written for humans."

"I am literally the only one of us who is human."

"You are the one who looks the most like me! I do not have wings. And the others are each different in a different way."

"What I'm getting here is that Anaanders are all clones or something and Rubelites aren't, so they have all the faces of our cluster so far and then some."

"We are all clones, and ship crews typically aren't," she confirms.

"Well, Rubelite, welcome to my universe. It has magic and mostly doesn't have hive minds and for some reason a bunch of people with our personality are appearing here mysteriously. We're expecting two more of the kind of person Anaander is and then maybe we're done."

"It wouldn't be all that wild a coincidence if we're missing a whole pair, and that's if we assume there's a fixed set slated to arrive and we're being grabbed at random."

"Some of the arrivals have been kind of conveniently timed. - for one thing I would've killed many of these people if they'd arrived first."

"You're welcome?"

"Thank you! I am grateful we didn't get off to a much worse start than we did."

"Although if I understand correctly one of those spells would in fact have killed me if I didn't count as lawful and some of me do not."

"Yes, that's how it could easily have gone badly."

"I'm confused!"

"Here, I'm done reading, let me know what you need clarified as you go?"

Rubelite starts reading.

Anaander watches her intently.

Cor watches Anaander.