and I evacuated them from the Material Plane to a science world -

- how - can you -

...I haven't tried evacuating anyone from the plane of chaos yet, it's possible it's harder in some way. Do you have a body there?

"Found him," she murmurs.

It's hard to tell the difference between 'I have one but it can't have effects on things and my senses are not any likelier than chance to report as if they're coming from it' and 'no' -

If you don't have one my current spell won't work to extract you and once I have one that does I'll need a separate one to attach you to a new body, this could take a while to develop.

...develop?

Science world. I can almost certainly come up with the spells but it'll take some work.

That's amazing. Uh - I like the talking, it is - likelier than chance that certain words would follow other ones, could someone maybe talk to me while you're - developing spells, can you tell me how that works -

Yes, I'm using an artifact to talk to you and I can hand it off to somebody who wouldn't be of use in spell development to keep that up. How do you want to trade off speed at getting out against getting a description of spell development in a science world sooner?

I wanna know how it works so when you get me I can do it -

I'll hand off the earwire soon for the time being, anyway, someone else can give you the basic introduction and teach you a language or something. Uh, in addition to being a friend of your family's I also know a lot of alternate universe versions of you and them.

There are alternate universe versions of people? What, on other planes?

Yes, although it's typical to call worlds which are not in the known cluster around the material "worlds" instead of "planes". And most planes are science planes.

So the mes are - okay?

You are the only one who has died more than once and even the others who died are all alive now and doing fine.

Do they want another one of me? They might have already done everything-

There is a lot to do, I'm sure you'll find a niche. Anyway it sounds like it'd be better than the Plane of Chaos.

Not if everyone wished I didn't exist.

Nobody wishes that. I've been looking for you since I found out there was one of you from our world.

...okay.

Do you want to talk to your alt who's here?

Okay.

So she offers Epic the earwire. "He's been stuck in the Plane of Chaos and wants to be kept company."

Hi! What's the plane of Chaos like? 

If I could answer that question I wouldn't hate it nearly as much!