"...what does that have to do with anything?"

"She's a you, and we missed her because she wasn't born yet -"

"Hatched and what are you talking about -"

"You're sure?"

"Honestly even when I was assuming we'd checked and it couldn't be I was thinking you'd get on splendidly if not mad at each other - and who else finds a Charp and gets an interdimensional teleport in several months and goes straight for the immortality necklaces -"

"It did occur so me that if I weren't so annoyed I'd appreciate the sense of humor."

"I still don't know what you're talking about."

"Worlds sometimes have - the same people in them. We don't know why. There're types, one of them is Bells. Hate mindreading and all causes of mortality, like magic, journal a lot, clumsy, will take over the world if it's being run poorly -"

"Would most people actually not go for the immortality necklaces?"

"My species is immortal by default but most mortal ones are distinctly unbothered about it. Anyway, the sarcasm, that's a Bell thing, and the indignation at your world being #291, and whatever you did but I will resign myself to learning that later, your alts are going to want to meet you."

"You didn't actually forget it, did you, were you that desperate -"

"Nnnno but are there really no other sarcastic people anywhere -"

"I'm sure, but I realize you don't have any reason to take my word for it. Want to meet them all and decide what you think?"

"Does the meet and greet come with immortality?"

"Is somebody dying?"

"Just everybody."

"Quickly?"

"...I do not know why this does not seem like an emergency."

"If everyone's going to be dead by the end of the month we ask Sibyl, who is a precog, if it's safe to move your whole world to Wish, where Gem can end death on your planet. If it's just humans getting older, we're making the necklaces as fast as we can -"

"How fast is that, what does seventh priority mean."

"If you want the necklaces you can have them, that's what 'you're a Bell' means, but the criteria are usually whether the people are resurrectible, how disruptive distribution is going to be - you can share them, but some places if there aren't enough you won't get sharing you'll get a war -"

"How. Fast. Is. Seventh. Priority."

"Six to nine years if we don't invent anything better by then."

"Well I'm glad I got out I would have been dead."

"We're glad you got out too."