Two wizards and two soldiers appear in the desert, a few feet away from a tired slave caravan.
They nod at each other and disappear again.
"They're not just from more or less recognizable other planes, the planes are all wildly different and so are the pharaoh-type people."
The new, sleeping person is dressed in backwards clothes including one glove and one sock.
"She looks human and I think she's too short to be a Maitimo given a human height distribution. That'd make her Anaander's, can't you guess anything from the clothes?"
"The summary says you're a hive mind when you're at home, but aren't you a hive mind of humans?"
Nod. "But she's not. - I meant it when I said I hadn't figured it out. But she's mine and she's not a human."
"Maybe you could - elaborate on the technical sense of 'human' you're using here."
"I do not think she was born of human parents and grew up doing her cognition with a human brain and now still does that. I do not know exactly which elements of that are off."
"Hmmmmmmm," she says. "...hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm how about Rubelite? But if you ask the rest of me you might get a different answer! I can't tell me right now."
" - please. I'm - sorry for everything, but please let me watch it's complicated and I'll explain later and I need to know -"