"Oh, they're married? My sister's just dating the version we ran into first. Um, also the magic we have is kind of a hilarious infosec hazard--Edie's kind is, mine isn't, we have different kinds--anyway she checked the posthumous writings of this universe and we discovered that Dwarves have an afterlife but no one else does and your me and her somehow reincarnated. So Edie's haring off to California to fetch her mysteriously no longer dead alt."

"I see."

"I am aware it sounds fucking crazy."

"I'll be at the location I gave you."

"Alright."

And he is.

Good, it would be inconvenient if Cam's drone had to come back empty-handed. Meanwhile she is in North Dakota angeling her way through an annoying amount of rock.

He has a panic attack at Cam's drone. He makes himself get in anyway because if this is something bad it's not like he could avoid it by running from the drone.

"Hello, I'm Cam, sorry about the lack of view out the lack of window," says Cam's voice through a speaker in the drone shuttle, "this thing isn't invisible so I'm doing cloud cover over anything inhabited, it doesn't look much like a plane. Be like forty-five minutes to where you're going."

Don't collapse don't collapse get yourself the fuck together - "Understood."

"...you okay?"

"I have no idea what information anybody has here - if it's really forty-five minutes I will be functional."

"...uh, okay. It's really forty-five minutes. If you need anything I can make stuff inside the shuttle, I can also turn off the camera but these things are mutually exclusive."

"I do not need anything. Thank you for offering."

"Okay."

He turns the camera off. He pilots the drone back to near the door.

He keeps his heart rate steady.

"Here you go. Elf ears'll probably let you actually hear me on top of the speaker," Cam says when he lands the thing, and the door opens.

"Where do you need me to go?"

"Mm - here -" Cam makes a trail of white pebbles.

There is definitely some staring when he walks past his-alt-who-is-making-sure-the-door-gets-kept open but less than you'd expect because he's in a suit and tie and his hair is cropped very short and dyed grey at the roots and plucked out to be suggestive of a receding hairline. 

Cam had seen him through the camera but something about watching him actually walk in increases his expectation that this one is not evil and is instead some brand new variety of fucked up (why are all the Maitimos fucked up). "The guy who can undo oaths is down there, door on the right."

...okay.

He walks down to the room on the right and says "Hello, I'm Matt, Cam asked me to come speak to you?"

"Nechar - moons falling how many of you are there - what is it?"

"Apparently you can remove oaths?"

"Yeah, if you tell me what it was. Why do you people keep making oaths you're just going to want rid of I don't get it."