[Fortunately, Augustine finds himself saved from this mostly harmless, but still rather alarming attack. As he comes back to his senses enough to thank his savior, the words are erased from his throat before he can even speak them.

Where did this mirror come from? No, no. it's not a mirror, is it?]

...that letter certainly wasn't joking around when it mentioned the multiverse, was it? [Marvelous! Fascinating! Of all the wild things he'd imagined experiencing here, the possibility of finding himself hadn't even occurred to him, and that it's happened, he can't help but find it amazing.] To think I would run into, well, myself!