"Agreed," says Adarin, in accented but perfect Marlese. "Sorry, I should have thought of something better than immediately teleporting to you both. Wow, that is weird, you sound like us and everything. Hello!"
"Okay I should have made a checklist or something, but, you, what's your name," she asks Iobel, "if you wanted to find out if I was you, what would you ask me?"
"I... well, you look like me... are you a clumsy spellbinder with parents that also match and a penchant for notebooking?"
"Clumsy witch, haven't checked parents, notebooking yes! My name's Isabella Amariah."
"I'm not actually clumsy anymore, I fixed it - and - my name's Iobel Swan. Iobel Maryah Swan."
"Witches don't do last names but my dad's is Swan! Well, in English, anyway."
Edarial eyes Adarin, and the cypress crown. "Are you a prince with terrible parents and a twin that likes fighting a bit too much?"
"I don't know about my birth father, but my mother was quite terrible. My sister likes fighting a bit too much and has the social finesse of a newborn three-legged moose. My adoptive father is quite wonderful, though."
"I'm from Earth! Adarin is from Kystle originally and he's the one with the plane-hopping magic."
"Yup!" says Adarin, brightly. "This is the fourth plane I've been to, that's how we got here."
"Essentially, another world, but you can't reach it by non-magical travel. Well. Maybe there will be technology for it eventually, but as of right now my plane-hopping magic is the only thing I know of."
"Nope! I am a magical, plane-hopping... Person. Wait, love, have we declared ourselves emperor and empress yet, or are the crowns just a fashion statement?"
"I told the robot army that English for Senior Equipment Maintenance Specialist is 'Empress', does that count? I think I told, like, a mayor of a town in the colony but haven't formally announced it. But prince, no, unless you count the son-of-halfblood thing?"
"I'll accept that. We are technically emperor and empress, and I am not a prince. Son-of-halfblood really doesn't count, I mean, I suppose she was technically queen but no one treated me in any - princely fashion. Not to mention all titles from Kystle are utterly meaningless. So I'm just - not counting it."
"But we are looking for interplanar resonance, whether it counts for purposes of your own life doesn't necessarily have much to do with whether it means he's a you. Although I'm increasingly convinced!"
"You're wearing a tiara, do you not have enough to be perky about?"