"So I was talking to Findekano for reasons you can probably guess and I was wondering if you had any idea what you were going to do when we got out of here while I was terraforming planets?"

"Explore, I guess?"

"Okay. Dunno if that's a helpful answer but I was banking on you having any idea, so."

"It doesn't have to be something ridiculous."

"If I can't come up with something good enough quickly enough I'm sure I can settle but I have to at least try."

"Okay, fair. Yeah, I think I'll explore. See new places, wander around a lot."

"Okay." She kisses him. "I can probably work with that. Or something."

"I'd say sorry to be difficult but you're a demon, do you have any idea how hard it is to get you presents?"

She giggles. "Some."

"I would feel bad about making my dads miss a grandchild but I guess maybe it'd get them to take breaks."

"Yeah, I don't think what they're doing is urgent on a within-Milliways scale."

"Time's passing in all the other worlds. Though, I guess, not regularly, exactly..."

"Yeah. Personally I'd be more concerned about your relatives who don't have forks here."

"It'll be hard on them, yeah, though there are alternate universe versions of all of them present, so -"

"I think a fork counts more than a straight alt but yeah."

"I wonder how much longer it's going to be."

"Which 'it'?"

"Being stuck here waiting for them to come up with something."

"Ah. ...And we're back to 'the timefuckery has been favoring the engineers.'"

"Yeah. Tried thinking about what that meant but it ended with me being pissed with our hosts here so I figured better to let it go."

"Yeah." Hug. Slightly pensive wingsnuggle.

He leans in. "Everything's going to do nothing for so long and then change so fast -"

"Yeah. Hell of a lot better than blowing up the Earth, though."

"It is that."

"I wonder if our alts will keep raising their kid in Milliways if we have the ability to traverse arbitrary universes in the relevant timeframe. I mean, we probably won't, but given timefuckery who even knows."