Is it the kind of thing they could?

"Nothing like it's come up before. I'm on the high end for power utility."

Is there any kind of pattern to it, or is it completely random?

"Twins get powers with better than chance synergy but other than that it's unpredictable - the synergy doesn't even have to be balanced, it's possible for one to be way better than the other."

And more-than-twins don't get better powers?

"The synergy thing stacks up - every pair gets some - but no."

Do you think it's just - a matter of time, eventually someone'll be that powerful, or do you think there's a cap?

"Hard to guess. It's only been going on for a little over fifty years but that's still a lot of twinsets. We do bellcurve, if you approximately grade power, but there could be a cap, there'd be no way to observe one."

And bellcurve still means - it might be a really long time...

"Yup."

Who might be able to get us home?

"There's more Gemini who can teleport; the gravity well is a me thing. Off the top of my head maybe Frame, who needs to know what a place looks like but you can do that part."

Probably we should try that. And then we can tourism after all the - dying - and other bad things that haven't even come up yet - are over.

"That sounds good, if you're sure this won't cause more problems than it solves."

They glance at each other.

That does seem important to be sure about. I think we might be less good than you at thinking of problems that could come up, have you thought of any? No one will kill human visitors because they are unwell and want to kill someone.

Melkor might do that.

- I guess it is technically possible that Melkor could do that! That's a thing that could go wrong.

"The volcano guy?"

Yeah. He hasn't done anything like that in 300 Years - which is a lot more than that of yours - but he used to do horrible stuff, I guess just because he was unwell and wanted to kill people.

"And now he is... well?"

He says he's so sorry and all he wants is to undo as much of the harm he created as he can.

"...because he had a breakthrough with his therapist?"

...I guess? I don't know why you'd kill people in the first place so I don't know why you'd decide to stop.

- not that he did decide to stop, the Valar made him. 

"...so he got caught, but now says he's very sorry, without any actual rehabilitative step in there."