Bird: Excuse me. I just have to calibrate myself. Can you hear me when I say this?
Random: Is that you talking, origami bird?
Bird: Good. (Pitch Up) And can you hear me when I say this?
Random: Of course I can
Bird: (Sepulchrally deep) And can you hear me when I say this?
Random: What do you want?
Bird: Obviously not. Good, well your hearing range tops out at 16 kilohertz. So. Is this comfortable for you? No harmonic screeching in the upper register? Good. I can use those as data channels. Now. How many of me can you see?
Random: One.
Bird: Good.
Random: What are you?!
Bird: We'll come to that in a minute. (Multiple voices) Just how many of me now, please?
Random: For Zark's sake - thousands... mirrored into infinity...
Bird: I see, still infinite in extent, but at least we're homing in on the right dimensional matrix. Good. No, the answer is an orange and two lemons.
Random: Lemons?
Bird: If I have three lemons and three oranges and I lose two oranges and a lemon what do I have left?
Random: Huh?
Bird: OK, so you think that time flows that way, do you? Interesting.
Bird: Well, can tell you that in your universe you move freely in three dimensions that you call space. You move in a straight line in a fourth, which you call time, and stay rooted to one place in a fifth, which is the first fundamental of probability. After that it gets complicated, and there's all sorts of stuff going on in dimensions thirteen to twenty-two that you really wouldn't want to know about.