Most people are terrible but that doesn't stop me from noticing ones who are great.

Good, that'd be tragic. Snuggle.

Yep. Can I have something to eat? Gosh, demons are so convenient.

We are! Anything in particular?

Not particularly.

She makes each of them a fully-loaded Chicago-style hotdog.

He has never had this before but pronounces it delightful.

Oh, good, I thought you'd like it.

You have great taste.

Thanks! I will totally recommend you things from my world with my awesome powers.

Great! And I can recommend things from mine, it's just that I didn't eat out much. Maitimo keeps nice restaurant menus on his computer to offer demons.

I actually have been eating from Maitimo's restaurant menus lately.

He's - so great, in a way that I have absolutely zero capacity or desire to imitate -

He is pretty excellent! I dunno, I could see--not me me, exactly, but I could see one of my forks if I had to make a bunch trying to--learn to be more like him to distinguish themself without going against who we are, does that make sense?

Yeah, definitely. If you're trying to grow in lots of different directions, 'Maitimo' is definitely a direction to grow in.

...if there were a way to fork Huan I still don't know if it'd appeal, I've never really wished there were more of me in the world...

I wouldn't do it just for the sake of it but if we need a large number of trustworthy demons...probably most of the new forks would be off Ada, though, since as far as I know she hasn't somehow found the time while scouting a war zone to acquire a boyfriend.

I apologize for complicating the forking situation, I didn't really consider that.

Well, it would have been just as bad if we'd been explicitly waiting to date until I was done forking, and we're probably going to be here a while, so.

If Maitimo were here he would have suggested I avoid doing things that are culturally loaded like swimming naked or whatever. But he is kind of a bore sometimes.

Besides, we don't know that prolonged proximity wouldn't have done it anyway without that bringing it to a head, and it would be a minor disaster if I forked after falling in love with you and before realizing it.

Yeah, that'd be awkward. Maybe we could go grab Cam's me, even if he's really upset...

That sounds unfair to him.

If Huan was in horrible pain I would be pretty resentful if people dragged me around for politics. But if they fixed it - which we're going to - and introduced me to the person who'd helped do it -

I mean, I'm not saying we shouldn't introduce him and one of me once he's okay, I'm just saying it would be seriously suboptimal circumstances if the context were, 'she fell in love with your alt but he's taken so you'll do' rather than 'one of you and one of her hit it off really well why don't we set you up on a blind date or something.'

Yeah, definitely.