"Duat? The Egyptian underworld!" Steven, who knew quite a bit about Egyptian culture, was the first to react. "You're Taweret, the goddess who protects women and children!"
"Huh?! Then aren't you the wedding gift Paimon and the Traveler gave Tony and Miss Potts back then?" The little one grew excited. Remembering the Traveler, she began questioning Taweret:
"Taweret, have you seen anyone besides the three of us? Paimon can't find them. We clearly came here together."
"Oh! About that." Taweret seemed unsurprised by Paimon's question. She appeared to know where the visitors to the underworld were at that moment.
"There isn't just one underworld. There are many, more than you could possibly imagine. Because Duat's true nature is beyond human comprehension, when we designed it, we chose to represent it in a way the human mind could most easily understand."
She surveyed their surroundings and looked at Mark and Steven. "But this is my first time seeing someone's inner world manifest as a psychiatric hospital in the underworld."
Steven was puzzled too. "Why would the underworld we imagined be a psychiatric hospital?"
Mark said, "Because we're both crazy."
"Paimon's not crazy! Why is Paimon here too?! Paimon should be with the Traveler." Paimon puffed up indignantly and protested.
"That certainly is inexplicable." Taweret rummaged through the slips of paper in her hands, but even after going through them all, she found nothing explaining a case like Paimon's. She didn't dwell on it, though. Tossing the papers aside, she immediately explained the next leg of their journey.
"Come aboard, quickly. We still have other people to pick up." Taweret beckoned to Paimon. "Come on, I'll take you to find your friends."
Hearing that, Paimon hurriedly flew over to Taweret and clasped one finger of her outstretched hand. Mark and Steven followed