It has sound effects! He flies it around the room and giggles.

It's adorable. This earns giggles.

"I'm so happy I have an alt. Even a depressing one."

I fully approve of your multiple existence.

"Apparently you three have a multiple existence, too!"

And there are always three of us. So we cheat by default.

"Yep. You are very unethically cheating."

Somehow, I don't feel inclined to stop.

"Cheater!" he accuses.

Hey, the more us to have around for your sake.

"Am I that greedy?"

Well, are we that tempting?

"Yes."

Good. We like this arrangement.

Eventually they should get together to discuss Rescue Plans.

Yes absolutely. Everyone relevant to the Rescue Plans is assembled.

"So, what's the mission's success condition?"

We have priority targets to retrieve, a list is being passed around. But our first step is figuring out where they are. We have some candidates and we don't think they've been separated yet, but it's a possibility.

We need intel. Not only on prisoner location, but also what they know about our capabilities and if they managed to salvage anything from the mindflayer planet.

"It's not impossible my emotional aura could be used in conjunction with this world's magic to find them."

"Have you tried that before?"

If you could that... it would be extremely great for moral around here. Too many people here miss relatives.

"The aura is what I use to find—new places to go. It's invisible, here, except to me, since you don't have proper light, but—"

She reaches out. She doesn't love them, but that doesn't matter because they matter, because her alt matters, her alt loves them, and they're people and they need to be rescued, she's their hope—

Their hope.

Her aura flares blue-violet and threads forms and move around the room. One of them touches and binds itself to Henry and then it reaches up...

"Gabe..." He gasps.

"—yeah I think I can—Sadde, help me out here, an illusion—"