She continues being vaguely comforting.

"...There have been about ten impossible things in the last hour. I think I'm giving up on reacting, now. What kind of things to reduce the chance?"

"Well, we can trigger Manifestation without the risk of death."

"Meaning, do the powers thing without maybe dying? Much better."

"Yes. So far we haven't anyone die on us that way."

"I am really, really in favor of not dying."

"I doubt you've been infected."

"How do you tell?"

"You've only been here for what? And hour?"

"Yes."

"It's not quite that contagious."

She mutters something resentful and wordless, and then, "Viruses. What about later though? You said you maybe can't send me back."

"We'll see. I wish I could give you more definite answers."

"Well I guess of all the places I could have been disappeared to this probably isn't the worst."

"I'm sure neither of us hail from the best of all possible worlds."

"Yeah well a virus that kills you or gives random maybe-not-good people big power has got to be a really destructive thing. Whoever made it is stupid or evil - was it made?"

"We think it was created. Hardly something that would evolve naturally."

"And nobody was smart enough to have good quarantine protocols. Or they got ignored because someone wants superpowers and accepts the risk. Typical Darwinists."

"Or it could've been released deliberately."

"Oh that's even more reckless. Making diseases and doing things to humans or other smart critters is illegal for good reasons where I'm from."

"I'm not saying it was a good idea."

"Did the virus make mermaids?"