And he heads off. He doesn't have to cover every world, just every neighborhood, so he can check in Edda for all of Edda's nearly five hundred neighbors. Searching for embryonic or nonembryonic Bekas in Ardas doesn't get anything. There was a Rebecca born in 1786 in Eclipse - and in Wish - and in Aurum - and in Cube - not in Revelation - yes in Warp - no, the Warp one wasn't born in 1786 - or on Earth at all -

- the Warp one is presently alive -

- present surroundings?

Digging a ditch.

He wants to go say hi but he thinks maybe someone else should do that. Instead he diligently finishes his checking and then speeds back over to the Ways'. 

"Miranda has alts and Rebecca has additional alts! None for Karen, sorry - are you Karen -"

"Yeah. Oh well."

"Want a chiplocked computer?"

"Yes please."

"Done!" He turns to Miranda and hands her a computer chip. "Beka suggested checking for embryos and babies to be really meticulous about not having missed any who had ever existed but all the yous that were embryos or babies had published works so we wouldn't have missed them anyway. There's a you in Marlatia and #516 and Shine and Atarale - and there's a you and a Rebecca in Wish and Aurum and Cube and Warp - and there's a Rebecca in Eclipse. Not in the other Ardas."

"...and this is all their published works out of context?"

"I can take you to meet them right now if you want. Rebecca and Beka I mostly can't take you to meet yours they're dead except for the one in Warp. The one in Warp is alive but we should probably check real fast that her world's not on the brink of getting warp drives and our interference won't make the Federation refuse to take 'em, or anything like that."

"Did she have a Catherine yet?"

"Didn't check that, I was trying to get through it really fast. I did make a model - you're not really supposed to do that it's kind of spying on people but I was surprised she wasn't from the 1700s like all the other alts of yours - anyway she looked like this." Ditch-digging pink-haired Rebecca.

"Huh. Pink."

"Would she be upset if an unattached me were told that he should go and fetch her?"

"I mean I dunno her details but it's pretty hard to top being swept off by a handsome alien."

"A prince even!"

"I think I will suggest it."

"I love you."

Giggle. "Hey, do I get that teleport thing or do I need to wait for Macalaurë to visit me -"

"I think they're stingy about the teleport thing?"

"Yeah, it was in the notes, the creator prefers to be cautious."

"Aww."

"Lotsa you!" Minor says gleefully to Miranda. "Are you going to go say hi?"

"Once I have freedom of movement and I have read some stuff, yeah, obviously!"

"Reading some stuff sounds good." He starts looking through his more detailed computer briefing.

Read read read. "...it is kind of hard to decipher people's writings out of context."