"Yeah," Al agreed with his alternate. "Now, if it was the original Gatekeeper, I'd wonder if the Gate wasn't just having Brother do it because it thinks it would be funny. But when you're looking at your own alternate who happens to be one of the two in charge of the damned thing now, it's not so hard to believe that it's for a reason. They might be the Gate now, but everything I've seen of them, they're still me and Brother where it really matters."