"He might say the same thing about you," Diana noted.

In a way, she liked the irritation better than all of the purring and demurring. It felt more genuine. And Diana was all about the genuine these days. It was just much easier to deal with. Warts and all.

At least she knew that this man and the one she'd met before weren't the same. There was no shapeshifting involved. Not transformations. No vessels or any of that...stuff. No, these were two separate entities.

Well, it was a multiverse. That seemed fair, somehow.

"May I read your aura?" she asked politely.