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Celegorm opens a door and finds himself looking, not into a guest room, but into a bar.
It is not plausible that someone turned this room into a bar, both because it's not a very Noldorin bar and because the room is too big; he built this fortress, he would know.
And, Huan says, it's very powerful magic and it smells of somewhere very far away.
Noted.
He walks in. Worrying about the Doom would be overthinking it. He hopes.
You absolutely have permission to damage the wall to get through, it would have happened in an accident sooner or later anyway.
Hugs. I must admit I'm curious to meet this person who apparently has both versions of my daughter so charmed. At the look on her face he adds, No, I haven't been reading your mind, but Edie's been filling me in quite enthusiastically since the door was opened.
powerispain
Yep! Had to repair some atrophy in the legs, as well as the initial injury, but mending something that has all the pieces there is way faster than regenerating bone. Even if it is a little trickier, when it's a spinal injury.
hastyriser
Congrats. I am happy to come say hi but if Edie gets distracted from holding that door everyone in my world dies so maybe we should drag a chair in front of it or something.
powerispain
I think everyone in your world dies only if neither of us ever finds a Milliways door ever again? Which is a very long time, considering that neither of us is going to die of old age. And it'd probably be safer to have little me and a chair, if we're going with the chair.
hastyriser
Yeah. If anyone from this world is in Milliways. If no one's in Milliways then the two worlds run along at their separate paces.
endoftheuniverse
By and large, Bar says, if you exit Milliways into another world, time will continue to be paused in your own, unless as a matter of causal fact you will not return there until and unless some event occurs there which requires the passage of time. However, this rule is less consistent than the already imperfect one about pausing while you are in the establishment.
Charles stands up slowly, carefully, as though he doesn't even quite believe it will work until it's happened. He steps forward the same way, and almost falls over; his body might be repaired but he still hasn't walked in seven years.
"Hello," he says. "I'm very pleased to meet someone who two of my daughter have such a high opinion of."
hastyriser
"I assure you it's not warranted. You can read me if you want, Edie did it by accident and did me a big favor in deciding for me that Odette'd want to know I liked her. And you should read Huan, he's really cool - Huan, come meet the alternate-universe future in-laws!"
Huan comes.