Raymond shouldn't have been surprised.
With an infinite number of possibilities to randomly select from. There were an infinite number of different future timelines where his gender was different. As well as an infinite number of future timelines where he was still the same gender.
He couldn't choose which possibility timeline he selected from in advance after all. It was only after he had summoned it once could he choose it again.
With his two thousand plus attempts however. He was bound to run into one eventually. It wasn't a matter of if, but merely a matter of when.
But this was the first time he had actually summoned a female version of himself.
The female version of him opened its eyes. Looking at him, and then the surroundings. Including the engraving on the ground.
"...so I'm a possibility?"
It was still a clone of Raymond after all. Possessing his intelligence and his mind. She read the purpose of the engraving, and easily deduced her own nature.
