[There's several of you; the Bells all have the same set of parents,] he says. [The Jokers - that's me and my alts - mostly do too, but some of us have different ones, or don't have any parents at all. Speaking of which, Helen happened because of some magic we got from another world. I used it to make myself pregnant, but I didn't specify another parent, and I guess the magic just picked one. People are... more like their alts than they're like anybody else. It's different for different sets. We don't really know why; one of the Bells has magic that can see stuff about alts and things, but she can't see that.]