Zia: "So once upon a time, there was a Chloe." "And also a Chloe." "And another Chloe.*" "And there was a wicked gnarly electric spike of like 1.21 jigawatts, and we accidentally put all three Chloes together in the same room." "Then they underwent gravitational collapse and nearly destroyedthe multiverse. The End." Chloe (facepalming): "Worst." "Explanation." "Ever."
Chloe: "Let's try again." "In chapter 4, we met — other me's from parallel universes." "It — was a tangled mess, to be honest." "I talked a lot with Chloe Two, who really wants to be a centaur for some godawful reason I can't explain." "And Chloe Three's a spider, and she fell in love with a spider guy in our world."
Chloe: "And then they all had to go home because it apparently really would destroy all of existence if they stayed." Zia: "S'what the math said, anyway. I might've forgotten to carry a 2."
Chloe: "So Zia zapped herself and summoned more Zias — still haunts my nightmares, thanks — and the Zias figured out together how to send everyone back." "And so every single one of us was worse off because Zia had to mess with opening more portals."
Chloe: "And that's it. I met a bunch of other me's, they all went home, and I learned I'm the worst one.Thanks, I hate it." Zia (grinning, big thumbs-up): "Don't mention it, babe."
Characters: Chloe, Zia
Chapter 4, "Me, Myself, and Yikes"! Because you can never have too many Chloes, unless you're Chloe, in which case even being the first one is already one too many.