Well, if there's one floating around we can set him up with Iobel or something.

She'd like that! That or a boy you who isn't taken, I think.

Yeah. If I meet Loki maybe I can figure out why Cam's with her instead of Iobel.

It's possible he just met Loki first, it's possible Iobel wanted someone more inclined to stick around and rule with her - an Aydanci might be more ideal for that than another Bell and as Cam said he's their scout....

I think her co-ruling needs are probably sewn up, actually.

Still might want someone who'd stick around.

Yeah, that could be it.

It's been sixty-fiveish years, we're probably not going to find anyone else who got snaked out of this world when you did. But maybe we could find the world the snakes are from.

Maybe. The rest of them would probably mention if they'd turned it up. Unless we're on a low-information-diet because we're traumatized.

We are on at least partially a low information diet but unless the snake world's abjectly horrible somehow I think they'd have mentioned it.

Yeah. Maybe however they find stuff doesn't work with what they have to go on.

We can get the whole briefing in a month. After I decide about getting married, after you've slept enough to be sure it was done on the first try...

What's the best-case scenario, on getting married - you marry him, you're sure it's unmistakably him, you get free will, you un-get free will, you - maybe have to marry him over again? - you are then convinced this is reality but do not go kill yourself because there is stuff to do?

Yeah. And I'm happier, because I know I'm not in Angband, and it probably means you were in Angband which is awful but me knowing for sure that it's true isn't really the awful part.

Yeah. This version of reality seems fine from my perspective, I'd take it. You were already going to have been in and out...

If I woke up in Angband I'd be glad you were safe but - it'd mean we didn't win after all - I can't say I'd exactly be relieved, not anymore -

Yeah.

Snuggles. This is a good ending. I'll take it. Not that I get to choose.

Yeah. It's just - happening. Snuggle.

Eventually Cam will come to pick them up.

Yup. He deposits back whence they came. "Anything else while I'm here?"

"My alt mentioned that something was planned to be done about free will?"

"Loki can do that, but she'll want to batch you in with the local orcs if at all possible, and not here. There's these magic rocks she can wield to do stuff and the one that's purposeable for free will doesn't like her as much as the others she uses, and they only work within one step of her home world."

"Local orcs are all dead, is that going to present a challenge?"

"Nope. Although eventually she's going to have to find another orc planet, I guess."