"Yeah, let's do that. What about the infirmary girl?"

"I put Aaron on that and he said it looks indistinguishable from Revelation in the same time period - uh, a few people and places and minor events different, but no references to magic in published works. - do you exist? Did you check?"

"I didn't check - my parents will be easier to find via publication, I was like ten -"

He asks Bar about a Charlie and Renee Swan in that world.

Sara's world is empty of these persons.

"It seems a little bit like you don't come in duplicates. One Arda with an Ambela, two Earths with you but completely different circumstances..."

"Which makes it hard to go deliberately looking for mes."

"It's terribly inconvenient, really." Security?

He's still there. "Hello again!

"Hey! Your world has books and so on, right?"

"Books?"

"No? Uh, do you have writing?"

"Sure, of course."

"Does anyone ever compile lots of writing into a complete explanation of a topic, or a fictional story, or a history..."

"Why wouldn't they?"

"The Bar usually lets you buy those but she can't find any."

"She can't sell magic things."

"All your written works are magic?"

"Well, there's signs and little notes you leave on your girlfriend's pillow and such but for anything substantial it goes on the flowers!"

"Ah, that'd explain it. Can anyone read the flowers?"

"Not sure if you have to be from an alucine or not."

"They're also where the instructions for magic are?"

"Sure are."

"Do you have a way to access them here?"

"Nah. I just talk to Bar and take naps."