"So is Shen Yuan, to an extent. Since you aren't a jurisfiction agent, I'll give that one for free. I used to think Shen Yuan came from a higher reality than ours ... but now I think Luo Binghe came from a reality a step down. A fiction within a fiction." It's a deeper hole to climb out of, but Claudius is out of the business of caring how deep. With a smile, he picks up a dropped thread, and continues, "But I asked what you'll do now. Is he getting in the way of your next steps?"