"I have the outline. Incidentally if any of the Space Findekános want apologies from Cam he'll oblige, he just currently doesn't feel like that would look more like an apology than like seeking absolution from people with more important demands on their time."

"I don't see that being particularly healing to anyone, no."

"Didn't think so, though I'd mention in case. You were saying?"

"Oh, there's a particular point at which my alt got him to agree to something by implying otherwise he'd have Cam replace him with a younger version who still did what I said."

"That, Cam wouldn't have done."

"Of course not. I wouldn't have asked him to. But Findekáno didn't know that, had barely met Cam, and so it was a profoundly shitty thing to do. Which my alt is fully aware of, of course - he is of a 'also I fed a planet to a black hole' mindset about it, but that doesn't mean he's not horrified - but -

- if I'd known that I wouldn't have asked my Findekáno to fix it, even though I was entirely right that it was fixable."

"- are the Space Maitimos and Cam all assuming full responsibility for the black hole?"

"And the space Findekános, who invented resurrection and therefore prompted Cam into it."

"That's a little much!"

"You can see why I was tempted to arrange for the person who is best at telling them so to tell them so!"

"How are they settling out post-month-in-random-forest-did-you-expect-them-to-be-hunter-gatherers?"

"We had a lovely time on that planet and it in fact didn't occur to me that they wouldn't know how to live off the land. With the human versions I'd have thought of it but I was thinking of them as 'us, with their tech boost a little sooner', not as 'none of the formative experiences of my first two thousand years'.

Findekáno and I had planted all our favorite things from Valinor there, everything in their vicinity was edible.

And they're together. Obviously. Don't know how fast it'll propagate."

"Asgard is in fact very unusual in keeping all its technology in the basement and only bringing it out for special occasions and having its children go directly from learning particle physics to learning to field-dress miscellaneous ungulates."

"Not even ungulates! Quail and wild turkeys and fish! To be fair, I don't think they knew how to make a bow or fire it, they might have known how to cook an animal if they'd got one.

And the plants were all edible too."

"Because eating random plants you find growing around is so safe if you don't recognize them..."

"We apologized profusely. Though it's not that dangerous, the perfect-bodily-control thing, you just try a tiny bit and notice what's happening..."

"That thing sounds so useful but I feel like it must be an amazing attention drain."

"Surely some daeva has by now been interested in putting in a chip and loading up my alts' version and can report on what the difference is like?"

"If they have, it hasn't grapevined its way to Cam yet."

"Cam's lovely. I'm - happy their world found us, if it was going to exist anyway."

Nod nod nod.

"I can't think of anyone better suited to you, either."

"It had somehow failed to occur to me in advance that I should clearly just date an alternate universe instance of myself. How could I have missed it."

"You come in boy! With an adorable tail and a ridiculous powerset that complements yours well and you can bond over residual Arda triumph-trauma."

"He got the wings very early on becoming a demon," she says. "But it took him decades to decide he wanted the tail and it was only because he'd get more range of expressive motion while summoned gagged that way, but apparently it's just tremendous fun to have a tail. He's also cuter than I'd speculated I'd be if I'd been a boy - I couldn't go out in a 'me as a boy' disguise, someone might've noticed, but I killed an hour designing something way back when, came out okay but didn't really look like Cam."