"Facial tissues, shortening, and hook-and-loop fasteners. Respectively."

"So not anything very spiritual, really?"

"I cannot immediately think of any brand names that became genericized and are also about spiritual objects."

"Well, there you go."

"I guess! Is it hard to find specific dead people you want to talk to while you're high?"

"There kind of . . . aren't . . . specific people . . ."

"Oh?"

"They're still there, just not very.  Separate."

"Well, that... sucks?"

"I mean we're all sort of the same people already.  So like yes, it definitely does, but probably less than it would for you."

"Are there two hundred and fifty six blobs of person-star?"

"It's more amorphous than that.  Stars lose their individuality over time; they start out basically the same as living people and over time turn into - little drops of processing power.  Or comparatively little, anyway."

"...processing power?"

"For like, the one great sapience that they all will eventually make up?  And as an intermediate phase there's yeah, ones grouped by birthday, or a few birthdays in one, or whatever."

"........can I have the, the religion for five year olds version of how this all works."

"Or do you just want to get high?  - Probably a bad idea; I don't know if it would work the same for people from other worlds and it might not-work dangerously."

"I'd try it but I'd like to know what I'm looking for. For instance, I'm concerned that more species than just cats might be people and if I can just go look for cats and see if also other things are there, that would be a convenient way to address that, but possibly someone would have noticed if the cats were distinct."

" - Yeah, that seems - important.  . . . And therefore I should probably have absolutely nothing to do with it."

"...not even in the role of, like, native guide?"

"Historically, being ambitious at all while aware that that might be a bad idea, but thinking it's going to be worth it, has invoked the thing.  Which in my current mindset applies here.  But also, historically, it still only ever applies to actions and decisions that mes make.  So - it seems safe for me to keep telling you widely-known facts, but don't be surprised when I don't really express opinions about what you should do, and don't listen to me if I slip up and say one anyway."

"Uh, okay. So what is the general process for taking omnilol, does one need a tripsitter, how long does it last, how is it dosed, should I just read this on Wikipedia."

"You could go to the library and check an encyclopedia if you want, though probably it would not tell you that we in this household have some conveniently-dosed gummies.  One for about an hour, increases linearly and safely for up to four.  Though that also affects the deepness of the connection; you wouldn't have any secrets at all after that, which y - which most people don't prefer."

"...can you expand on that?"

"Well, when you die you eventually become One with everyone else, right, and this is just reversibly inducing a shadow of that.  And if you take enough omnilol at once then you basically end up all the way merged, for a while, and since the thingy knows the contents of itself then it knows everything you ever did, and it remembers that even once you're separated again."

"...troubling. Perhaps I will recruit someone else to check for cat souls." Pause. "Princess, can you tell me more about Starclan?" he meows. "Jackie's telling me about the twoleg version of that understanding and I'd like another angle on it."