Or a very kinky one, yeah, but that's not quite the same thing.

If people want to torture their consenting forks that seems like extremely none of my business.

Agreed. Anyway, maybe we can sweep for that kind of behavior--don't mention the forking thing, check to see when people figure it out, keep an eye on them to start with...not really the priority now, though.

No. Now the priority is making sure my dads and brothers don't starve themselves because the work's too interesting to stop and/or because they don't really want to cope with reality and the work lets them avoid it...

Eegh, yeah.

I assume it'll take at least a couple hours before that's necessary, though.

Yeah, wouldn't bother them yet. 

So what should we do in the meantime?

Dunno. Do you think keeping Cam company is better or worse than not doing that -

If it seems to be making things worse we can stop, she shrugs.

Then back to Cam. "I'm wondering if my brother wrote the same music in the other Arda, would you mind grabbing them? And something to play them on, I guess, we probably don't have compatible file systems with the other Arda..."

"Uh, sure." Discography, player, bam. "He's really good."

"I'll pass the compliment along. Back when we were stuck summoning locally he'd do commissions for demons, we got a lot of nice stuff that way - oh, yeah, this is different than anything Macalaurë wrote but still obviously Macalaurë, weird -"

"Wow."

"Isn't he amazing?"

"Yes!"

To Tyelcormo's surprise his father comes downstairs before they've finished listening through the symphony. "We're out of food," he says, "can one of the daeva conjure some more - same content's fine -" He looks like it's been at least a month. 

"...sure." Cam goes up to place another supply of food.

"You okay?"

"We've been productive."

"You look like it's been a month."

He blinks. "It's been two."

"Explanatory napkins said time was inconsistent between bar locations that weren't interacting."

"How long's it been for you -"

"Like, six hours? I was going to check up on you and make sure you didn't work yourself half to death - you don't even need to, time's not passing, no one's dying because you haven't figured it out yet - I am going to go drag all of them down here and we are going to have a fucking regatta race and - two months -"

"Are you set on a regatta race because I'm amenable to a break but I want to learn some new languages."