"Can you give me a range of possibilities?"

What do you mean?

"Are any of these older than...forty thousand years old?"

Yes, but do bear in mind that time does not pass at the same rate between universes.

"...How long ago was it in Kilaiuossa that Idaia and Imliss got snaked, can you tell?"

Six and a half months.

"They need to know this."

"Um. Wow. Yeah, they do, though - they said everyone they cared about was already dead - uh, we could ask magic Macalaurë to call Imliss?"

"Yeah. Maybe they have no desire to go back and maybe they don't but they still deserve to know."

"I mean. We also can't get them back there. But yeah -" Macalaurë?

Yes?

Can you tell Imliss it's apparently been six months in their home universe since they left it?

Imliss? Your alts asked Bar how much time has passed in Kilaiuossa and - it's been six months.

What.

I am just the convenient osanwë-having messenger.

Right. Thanks. I'm just going to. Investigate this more directly.

She comes down to the main bar area.

"What."

"Six and a half months."

"This time fuckery stuff is weird."

"It's been thirty thousand years."

"We know."

"I should talk to Maitimo. And ask him what his standards of technological development are before things become less than straightforward to assimilate."

"I can ask him to come down -" Nelyo?

He is snuggling his boyfriend and working on plans for portal setups. Mmmm?

He summarizes.