All right. A couple more minutes to get warmed up, and then I'll go.

She appears in the room where they were discussing magic experiments earlier.

Hello. All good?

More or less. I brought them some food and offered to let them come to my world while things get figured out, they're deciding whether they want to take me up on that. And they'd like an apology and their things back, and your sibling agrees that that should happen.

Tell Nelyo that's sweet of him, but he can't remotely command the camp with absolutely no information except his sentiments.

She gives a small shrug. They're sure enough that that's what they want to make it an order, but somebody should probably go talk to them directly.

I'll go talk with him.

Thanks.

Tyelcomo's coming to talk to you, it sounds like there's some complication in giving the things back or something.

Okay.

"Hey. Are you King or not?"

"Is that going to be necessary to see justice done here?"

"'Starving our people to bail other ones out of their bad decisions' is an interesting definition of justice."

"Their losses must have been horrifying."

"I know that. It doesn't mean we throw away things we need to win the war."

"If I thought it were remotely plausible this were real I would come home and set it right at once."

"You don't have enough information to string us along remotely."

"What information do I need?"

"What resources we have, what constraints we're under, what shape they're in, how likely they are to attack us, what the war effort is going to require, what grows here, what we've been able to duplicate -"

"Give them back what we stole."

"No."

Darn it, she'd been starting to like that one.

Is this mostly a practical problem that I can maybe help with, or...?

I don't think so. If one arises I'll tell you.

All right. It's not going to be a disaster if you can't get them to do it, I don't think; the other host is expecting them not to.

I know. 

Okay. Sigh.

The best thing would be to find another world entirely for them, but I don't think they'll agree.