"Do you need something?" Liliana spits.

In this world, her double is Professor Opal, and in this world Professor Opal is dreadful. Her smile is saccharine. "Only conversation."

The last thing Liliana wants in either Multiverse is conversation. Her captor explained what Opal is. Not a being purposefully created the way Tam was, but a product of Jace's project functioning correctly. "This Multiverse blooms on its own," her double said when they first met. "Now that I see you, I understand why I am who I am. I am the you who made the right choices."

The healer, the calm and radiant noble, the insufferable snob smiles at Liliana now with venom on her lips. "Do you wonder what it will be like? Me overwriting you?"

The necromancer rolls her eyes, and her head joins them for the ride. "You know, change of plan. Can you just kill me instead?"