Headshakes all around.

He waits a second. He looks unsurprised when there's no response.

I can put you in touch with someone who you can safely communicate with as long as you do not share your name, or any part of it.

It's not really clear if this makes it safe to talk yet.

He is walking around in the place where he lives. He knocks on a door.

It opens. "What is it?"

Giggle.

If you have any way to contact this person it is safe to do so as long as you do not share your name or any part of it. Or anyone else's name. There are other things that can go wrong but not just through communication. 

Do not contact me again. Goodbye.

" - uh, I was just telepathically contacted by people from another universe who claim to know lots of versions of me and want to talk. It's not safe for me to do so. I'm hoping they'll agree to talk with you instead."

"Why can't you just explain to them?"

"I'm not sure what they're getting from the telepathy - I guess you'll hate that too, but you can ask - and I don't want to bet that the explanation won't count as answering an unanswered question on their end in which case I'm entangled with someone in another universe."

"I guess. Do you want me to come find you when and if they get in touch, relay stuff?"

"Sure. It sounds fascinating."

So she waits.

"I wish I knew what they were saying. They seem done, let's talk to her?"

"Yep." 

And they send the same message.

Are you reading my mind?

"No. This is voluntary only telepathy."

Don't talk to the faeries at all till you know their rules. The one you need to know for talking to me is that you shouldn't tell me your name, not even a syllable of it. Do you understand?

"Yes. What would happen if we did that?"

Makes you my vassal, which means you'd have to do whatever I ordered you to. I wouldn't be inclined to hurt you but it wouldn't be a pleasant surprise.

"What's the deal with the faeries?"

They can't use just a syllable, and they don't have vassalization per se, but unlike me they can get what's called 'entanglement' off even a nickname if you use it enough. The faery you initially addressed knows me as "Harmony". Entanglement with a faery makes you subject to faery rules, which they also follow. In addition to name based entanglement there is debt based entanglement which accrues or as the case may be decreases when between two parties at least one of whom is a faery one of them lies for an extremely restrictive definition of lying, commits violence, answers questions, exchanges or damages property, does favors, exposes the other party to artistic content, or performs sex acts. A subset of those things constitutes what is called 'misbehavior' - lying, violence to and only to someone you are indebted to, theft or destruction of property that doesn't belong to you. If you commit misbehavior while entangled with any faeries then you and everyone you are entangled with, and propagating out along their own entanglements with some decay, will suffer what is called 'misfortune', ranging from bad luck and headaches to worse luck and sudden horrible death.

"Does he have a way to tell if we are already entangled with him?"

"- they ask if you have a way to tell if you are already entangled with them."

" - I'd need to see them."

"Should I tell them that's urgent?"