The staffer furrows his brow and mutters to himself in Chinese and says something about getting what you pay for from Duolingo and leaves. A different staffer shows them to the Secretary of State's office.

The Secretary of State is pleased to see them - he says so! - and wants to know how they have found this universe so far.

"It's lovely! Remarkably similar to ours in a lot of ways. I didn't expect that Wal-Mart would be present across universes."

"Can we arrange for someone to watch our son for a little bit?"

"Sure, we have onsite daycare." He summons his assistant and the assistant comes to ferry Meng Xuanyu and his accessories to the onsite daycare.

"You're doing a good job of accommodating working parents!"

"Thank you! I'm nostalgic for an era where it was normal for women to be stay at home parents but this polled well. Anyway, welcome to our universe!"

"So far I've noticed one major difference between my universe and yours."

His dreams of wild political success are melting away.

"What is it?"

"We can say things that aren't."

"That aren't what?"

"Maybe an example would be helpful-- 'you are a woman.'"

"I -" She looks down at herself. "Well, the political climate hasn't really let me, ah - and my wife wouldn't like it -"

"Did you think you were a woman before Lan Xichen said that?"

"I... well, that's an interesting question, I'm not really up on the modern gender related lingo... I'm not sure."

"Maybe we should try something that's not a social construct."

"Well, at least I should put him back the way he was-- you are a man."

"Oh, thank goodness."

"My hair is yellow."

"That's a really convincing wig."

"The hair that you currently see on my head is yellow. --This is an ability people from my world have. I can say that my hair is any color I want, blue or pink or purple or red."

"I think the light in here might not be very good."

"This conversation is not very important and you don't remember anything from it."

Blink blink. "Well, I think that's enough smalltalk for now. Welcome to the Fractious States, how can we best establish relations with your universe?"

He can rewrite the personalities of the most powerful people in the world and no one can catch him.