"The multiverse has many, many universes - some are similar, most aren't. Unfortunately, it only seems to have so many lives to be lived or faces to be worn. You share one, apparently, with a man in Eirene's past." He grimaces, briefly, and goes on, "A bad habit of the nexus is resurrection outside of reality. I was killed in my own universe, awoke in the nexus, and later I came here. Eirene had an experience that I wouldn't hardly call similar, but yes, she's died once before. I found her in the nexus and brought her here, she manages the household."

He considers how to finish this. "From what I've discerned, her death was horrific and her life previous had been largely as a slave. I don't know who it is she mistook you for, and I'm not going to ask her unless she feels the need to share it."