I love you. It's--good to have that to hang onto, at least.

Really glad we came out of everything so - okay.

I think most of our trauma got nipped in the bud, yeah.

I hope we find more early.

Yeah. I really hope so.

So many of them -

Yeah. Wingsnuggles.

Wingsnuggles are nice.

They are! Being a daeva is great like that. Any idea for finding them faster, or is that line of thinking just--fruitlessly worrying?

There's probably some way - I hate the idea that they could be passing the decisive points right now, out there somewhere -

Yeah...maybe we could ask Bar if anyone's tried anything like this before that she can remember?

Oh, good idea, let's.

"Bar, can you remember if anyone's tried to interfere in a universe they only knew about theoretically, and how that worked out?"

I'm not sure what you mean.

"There are a fuckton of Ardas with time passing in them. At any moment one of them could--have their Maitimo captured--or any of the atrocities in Ozymandias--we want that not to happen."

Occasionally people can prompt irregular behavior in the door with some kinds of magic. You may leave things with me to be offered to future patrons of certain templates. I do not know of another way short of controlled interdimensional transit to interfere.

"What kinds of magic can prompt irregular door behavior?"

Most recently, a person had influence over doors in general as a concept and was able to apply it to the Milliways door.

"Huh. Okay."

"I guess it's something but we can assume most Ardas won't find doors."

"Yeah...I wonder if dreamshaping can do some kind of door-or-something related effects that would help..."

"Could ask 'em."

"Could also maybe ask if Nechar would be willing to try anything."

"He's, like, super sick of us. But yeah, might be worth it."

"Yeah, you sort of have to feel sorry for him, but on the other hand if making him sick of us saves a Maitimo from being tortured for decades in Angband..."