"No, I. I actually am. Technically I'm some sort of magic-tech clone? Snatched from Earth at the time of my death and given a new body, one that could live on a dead world. If we were. If this were normal, if we were on the train, I could show you my lantern, which has my. My life force in it. Soul. Whatever." They're actually kind of disturbed that the illusion world has somehow hidden it, or turned it into something else, because it is clearly not here, hanging off their shoulder on its strap, like it normally would be. They've spent two years attached to that lantern, and not having it there is like not having their arm.

"There's. There's multiple universes, Steve," they explain. "Multiple versions of me. Multiple versions of you. There was another one of you on the train a month ago." And he left them. Not his fault, they don't blame him really. Maybe not even a decision he made. But still. Even more important: "There was another one of me a year ago."