"Did they kill a lot of people and then blame an innocent who'd been trying to do the exact opposite?"

"They are to my knowledge innocent of that in particular."

"I don't know what they were actually like. I shouldn't assume. I apologize."

Shrug.

Mildly awkward silence.

"On the other hand, apparently their Valinor is extremely censorious and ours is....not. When Cam leaves we lose contact between the dimensions, is that right?"

"We're from the same Hell, so I'd expect us to be able to pass messages by conjuration. Maybe if there are dimensional shenanigans we have to be unsummoned first or something."

"Okay. I was going to say that maybe in a few subjective centuries ten of my father will just invent a way to time-travel or something and it'd be a shame if there was no way to let you know, but as long as there's something, and someone checking -"

"Yeah. I assume the version of him in mine will produce interesting things too."

"Might take him longer. Under the circumstances. Or maybe they'll make him work faster, don't know."

"Pity yours isn't in reach."

"Bet he'd be delighted to be forked, too, if there's something it'd be useful to have him for..."

"That wouldn't surprise me, but I'm reluctant to presume it."

"It sounds like we're the same people, with only the Valar changed? There aren't any versions of my father who wouldn't be happy to be forked so they can work in a time-stopped bar without the soul-crushing certainty that every minute they waste or sleep is a moment in which unimaginable horrors are done -"

"...It does seem like the unimagineable horrors are done with there. At least for now. But granted."

"I kind of want to give all our alts a hug, it's soul-crushing and I didn't even learn the worst of it until we had an avenue to end it."

"Yeah, there's that."

"If we're staying here awhile I might design a new starship, wanna help?"

"Sure, why not."

So he tells her the computer system and model and shows her how the design program works and they start brainstorming extremely pretty starship designs.

"We should probably get Emily in here. She'd love this and I am not spending decades without my twin."

"If we're gonna cause time to pass again, even a few seconds of it, we should get a list of everyone we want."

"Yeah, good plan. I don't need her now."

"I'm happy to save the pretty-ship-design for when we've got her, if it's making you nostalgic, it's just that my other hobbies are flying and shooting things, and those are less suited to here..."

"Just brought it to mind, that's all, although I really doubt anyone'd mind if you shot at the drifts of former-server dust in the backyard. Might be cathartic."