No matter what the circumstance, the Aspects always found one another, even without prompting, as Eli had known from experience. So to hear from Neal that he wasn't aware of the others felt very wrong to him.

"Not including us? Ten, though a couple of us are special cases like me." Eli was aware that he was on his quest to find Jasper, but he could take a break to help Neal out before gathering clues and jumping onto the next world. "We're called Aspects, by the way."