"I don't like it, and I want something better but I don't know - what. What's more normal. What happens to more people than this happens to? In alterCheliax, I realize it happens all the time in realCheliax."
"This is way too close to being a trope. If it happened to alterIone, she should be hiding it, and presenting Keltham with some more normal story, that we can reveal this trope hiding behind, if at some point we want him to believe in tropes so his girlfriends can extract him from the Project."