"...I just don't get why you wouldn't pentagon it? Like, I guess Pen would be fine for vocab if you really wanted to learn English and she was the only person around..."

"I think by now I have familiarity with your mother's syntax and can use that if it'll make it easier for you to understand me. My son has a neurological condition that means he cannot read the standard alphabet so I invented him a better one. I'd also have done that if he couldn't read it because of a curse or couldn't read it because he found it too ugly. The information that Pen's syntax is a  'neurological condition' does not to my mind change the appropriate response. Can you remove the Doom without erasing my marriage?"

"Yeah, I think I can leave it alone -" She looks at Lazarus, gets a nod. "Yeah. I kind of want to know what Céleste thinks of it if you don't mind though, she's my alt and she has almost but not exactly the same power as me."

"I don't mind at all."

Céleste comes and has a look. She does not find the marriage oath as unobjectionable as Keziah does and is not sure she could leave it alone but agrees that it is less ooky than the other things. Since she is not sure she could leave it alone she goes home instead of staying to help.

And Keziah degooks Fëanáro by herself.

Fëanáro asks questions about Milliways.

Angela will answer the first several of these but then refers him to Bar.

Fëanáro will ask Bar so many questions. His sons watch him with weary amusement. "Thanks," Maitimo says to Angela. "I expect our world can cope from here. There are a lot of people who will deservedly want to punch my father; nothing bad will happen to them if they try, right?"

"Well, perhaps they'll be frustrated at failing to connect, but no, nothing will happen to them."

"Great. Thank you. That may be all; we'll contact you with cities in a bit."

"Lovely. I'll go put a Janepoint somewhere out of the way for redundancy with the gem Tyelcormo's holding - oh, also, the ansible connection in the gem will still work for time-syncing and brainphoning if you turn off the sensors in the gem, which you may do at any time, there's a little switch -"

She goes and installs a Janepoint out in space and bids the elves a polite goodbye and takes Pen and Keziah home.