"Well, she's been there for less than half a year, if he's as introverted as I could guess from the ten of 'em upstairs it's not that surprising they haven't crossed paths yet, it's a big university."

"Yeah, fair. Knock me out, baby."

She tries. "Nothing doing, binding's still on."

"Great, okay, then we'll just do imports."

"What -"

"My brother wants to be emperor of the multiverse so my dads are working on persistent portals. Plan is to go world-to-world and dump infrastructure and so forth on them, but if we've got to do it all with forks of Ada it's gonna be a bit more challenging. This means we can just figure out a sufficiently-safe binding and then summon demons for help. Also means we can snag ourselves a Melkor and then go put him somewhere he really really can't hurt anyone - our Valar are daeva, they're the only ones so far, and we're two-for-two on swords-and-sorcery Ardas versus normal ones."

"I see."

"Anyway." He heads back inside and plops on the couch. "Names for the new world, anyone?"

"Reversi?"

"Isn't that a game? That's barely better than my idea."

"Ozymandias."

"That one. We're going with that one."

"I should catch you up on everything."

So he does - well, most of everything, he says that in Mirror their alt is an amoral but capable-enough-it'll-be-a-hassle-to-depose him dictator but nothing else, he describes the opening of Singularity's war and then says the world's on pause until resurrection is possible and then heads on to Abaddon, he makes up for the paucity there with extended digressions into summoning and how it works and FTL and how it works-as-far-as-I-understand-I'm-not-an-engineer and they've been experimenting with magic songs and they're finally going to have a Macalaurë, which will be great for morale, and here's the emperor-of-the-multiverse plans.

"You're not sworn to anything -"

"Nope. I am - acutely aware of all the ways I can apparently mess up - but I think I've got people around me who'll catch it -"

"And when they die -"

"Cam's indestructible."

...he looks very confused a couple seconds but does not comment.

(Cam thought 'Reversi' was great.) "It's pretty convenient."

"I suppose for a certain sort of person it would be."

"...yeah."

"Enemy's going to die. All of the versions of him."

"Why do you think that's finite."

"Well isn't that a cheering thought."