"I still don't know any of you all that well. I can ask Loki if you want." (Wag.)

"Congratulations. And sure, I'd like the chance to meet her more anyway."

Cam goes and gets her.

"Can Space Elves not make do in random forests for a month?"

"I mean, we weren't in danger..."

"I'm not actually sure if they thought you'd be comfortable or just not-in-danger, but they may genuinely not have thought through the part where higher tech backgrounds tend to lead to less wilderness survival experience."

"...that might be it. Can I go tease my counterpart about this oversight - well, can I have something to eat first -"

"What d'you want?"

"I don't think we were feeling very particular."

Cam hands them each a bento box.

"So what have we missed?"

"Oh, Loki solved all of the problems that there were."

"I am glad to hear it. And you've picked up the interdimensional teleport, does that mean Limbo's now all provided-for?"

"I had to work around the existing indestructible Limbo Objects but yes pretty much."

"...those moveable if we need indestructible limbo objects for something sometime?"

"Some of them are! I'm not sure you could move the buildings, but like, my mother has an RV."

"I'm very glad all of the problems in the universe are solved. We should probably get home and see what piles of work that's somehow created."

"And update your forks in whatever manner it is customary for you to update your forks, likewise."

"I expect they're ahead of us, unless you mean on the observation 'you're probably better at relationships when not under mind-affecting Vala magic specifically aimed at undermining them'?"

"Yes, that. Doom's out of the way, now, I checked."

"I keep wavering on how reasonable it is to expect of myself that I should have noticed and corrected for that."

"I'm assuming you were distracted."

"Two hundred thousand people dying every day. It wasn't that we couldn't have gotten along splendidly, it's that neither of us could have forgiven ourselves for wasting time talking through our feelings like that..."

"How long would it have taken? Did it have to be a whole month?"

"...four hours, probably. I told Mitros that in hindsight we should have spent them, but at the time it seemed like an indulgence, it's not as if it had any costs other than I think alarming your counterpart very badly..."