Iobel has a cat. He looks the new alts over disdainfully.

"...my cat. My cat has alts and I don't."

"You know a Cricket?"

"I have a Cricket. He attacked Timothy in Italy while he was a kitten and Timothy knew at once I had to have him."

"That's what you look for in cats for your sister-in-law?"

"My world has typically-very-hard-to-detect mind control, he noticed it. I'd rather he didn't hate me but we take what we can get."

"Cricket's not fond of me either."

Rrrrr.

"He used to like you, it's not like we have discovered an unbreakable pattern of Crickets hating yous. Anyway, Miranda, you should bring your Cricket by sometime and we can see if they get along with each other."

"I bet they will."

Jeremy wants to pet this Cricket. He distracts Jeremy by flipping him around so he can't see Cricket at all. "Very pretty palace. I think it's weird that Timothys are usually royalty."

"All of you are usually royalty!"

"I on the other hand am only occasionally royalty! Once by birth and also adoption - same one - a few times elsewise."

"That is to say mostly by founding an empire."

"Read about that! It's tempting though a little bit less so since I learned it was the motive of the woman who tried to murder us."

"Oh?"

"Killed off the rest of a royal family to get the Queen to adopt her, apparently. We don't know what she had planned after that, she died."

"Well, none of me have done that."

One of her did feed a planet into a black hole! He read about it. He refrains from bringing it up.

"Michael, your alts have a concert planned. You should know that Makarial wished to be the best singer in the multiverse and does not come by it naturally. In case you were going to feel insecure or something."

"None of you have a Rebecca so I'm honestly feeling very secure. I do want to hear the best singer in the multiverse, though."

"Gosh, am I better than being the best singer in the multiverse? What about the other one of you who does have a me - whatever amount he has her now, it's unclear since she is not holding out to get married -"

"I am sure if anyone mentions in his absurdly enhanced earshot that as far as you are concerned he has her less than I have you he will find some way for them to get married."

"Oh, it's not even hard, Elf marriage is expectation-controlled."

"...huh?"