-there's this concept in science worlds called entropy, it's loosely how orderly things are - living beings are ridiculously orderly, a book or a computer chip is ridiculously orderly, one interpretation of 'chaos' would be 'maximum disorder' but that would actually just be kind of boring -

No, it's not like that, sometimes there's a giant frog or everything is on fire or it looks like there's a castle made out of hissing snakes or molasses drips or something -

Does it drip in a consistent direction? Is there a sort of place that castles out of hissing snakes and stuff are usually on, are amphibians and reptiles more common than conventionally cute animals -

No, and no, and no. Don't you think I'd have noticed -

I mean, you couldn't have known about entropy, you wouldn't have been allowed. 

I really don't think it applies here.

Maybe not but practically all the things you are describing are really high entropy ...I guess less so if they're just illusions of those things -

How about places that aren't the plane of chaos, what are they like -

And he flaps his wings and settles in a corner and tells him all about the multiverse.

Awww.

"Thanks for the heads up," Boots tells Sibyl and Maitimë.

"How long are you expecting retrieval to take -"

"Depends. It might be that eclipsed who've learned to do reembodiments could do that for him too, actually, I don't know how specialized their magic winds up being."

"If nothing else it should branch pretty easily..."

"Epic, does it sound like he's doing okay -"

"He'll be okay. Boots can help him."

"I'm not a panacea. But he was talkative and coherent, he'll probably be all right."

"Good."

"If Epic gets bored you can take the earwire and talk to him too if you like, but maybe read the background material in the files on Materia first for context."

"Will do. So far it sounds terrible."

"It is!"

"And I'm not coming from a place of much enthusiasm about Ardas."

"I am the only Bell who goes around with my hair like this because I'm the only one who landed and found Valinor so appealing by comparison that I went native."

"I'm - glad Arda was that place for you and I wish I could figure out ways for it to be that place in general."

"My thing does not alas generalize."

"Extremely low standards? I hope not."