 Overseas, Lazarus is seriously wounded in combat, but is rescued by his Tertian household.In "The Number of the Beast", the main characters discover a way to travel to fictional worlds, and in the course of their explorations, visit the world of Lazarus Long.Using the technology of these characters' ship (which can travel through space and time), Lazarus snatches his mother out of the time stream at the end of her life and replaces her with a dead clone.