"I missed you too." Hugs.

"When we have dimensional summoning we can steal everyone from Materia!"

"Carefully. Some of the people in Materia are dragons or gods or whatever."

"We can steal the nice ones!"

"Yes we can. Evacuate the whole place."

"And I don't think I'll have children but if I do they'll be safe and okay."

"How come you don't think you'll have them anymore?"

"I'm going to be too busy and I can just go find dimensions where I did!"

Giggle. "Okay."

"And they seem very sad."

"Yeah. How's your alt doing?"

"He's also very sad but he can fix it by working hard and inventing better things and eventually he'll be okay."

"Okay. And how are you doing?"

"I am so so glad I have you."

"I'm really glad I can help you."

"Otherwise everything would be so awful."

Squeeze.

"Stupid evil everything. I wish I were smart enough. I should have been smart enough. I don't know why I wasn't smart enough."

"I don't think it's a matter of not being smart enough."

"If I'd been smarter I'd have been epic by then and could have killed a god. Even with our slow magic."

"Are you sure? It's pretty slow and I'm not sure how even in principle you'd kill a Vala with it, and there wasn't much warning he had that he'd want to kill one."

"He should have been smarter, should have guessed."

"Him and what hints? Intelligence lets you guess things with fewer clues but not no clues, and the fewer you have to work with the more things they might mean."

"Don't know. But it's even worse if there's nothing they could possibly have done..."

"Is it?"