"I mostly know violin stuff... hmm..." He compiles a list of a couple dozen assorted things and deems it good and offers Maitimo a mixtape.

aaaaaaahhh

"Thanks! I will listen to it next time I'm wandering lakeside, I can't work and listen to new music at the same time."

"Can't you? Don't you have the tons-of-conversations-at-once thing?"

"...I probably could now that I'm not having multiple conversations, yeah. Might be just habit."

"Walking works too, whatever, let me know. Oh, and if you have listened to any human music recorded between 1970 and 2035 it will retroactively seem really unoriginal after you listen to Pachelbel's Canon."

"Good to know! We should really grab a Macalaurë at some point, I'm sure he won't mind it at all and it'll keep the engineers sane. Well, saner."

"I'm really not sure how you come by this confidence. Do you normally spend lots of time discussing wacky hypotheticals like forking with your relatives?"

"No, but I can model them very well and all of my peoples' first reaction would be 'I want to be of service to my King and people in whatever sense I can' and most of their second reaction would be 'oh, cool, now I can study twice as many things.'"

"That's a suspicious lack of reaction variety."

"The people who didn't feel that way didn't come with."

"...still a suspicious lack of reaction variety, honestly, maybe it's an Elf thing."

"Maybe. If I'm ever wrong you can stop trusting me on that, fair?"

"I suppose. That's still one fork who'd have to come into existence on your say-so and then tell you off about it such that I found out..."

"I will tell you if it ever comes to my attention that someone'd prefer not to have been forked, and I'll endeavor to learn the truth about that."

"Okay."

Notice how I did not fork myself a boy I could sleep with even though it'd help.

"I recognize it's not something to take lightly."

"I'd like to meet an alt of myself but feel very disinclined to fork, personally."

"We were going to try summoning you from our native dimension, since apparently you exist in our native dimension - or, well, Revelation does - but Edie was slightly worried that'd do things to the time-stop."

"Yeah, it seems likely to do something to the time-stop, and also if Revelation there is not me it's not obvious how you'd find out who it was and summon them."

"Complete works of the person who wrote the relevant blog posts won't do it?"

"...there weren't blog posts involved. I was actually pretty careful with my anonymity, the fact that a guy tracked me down was genuinely surprising."

"How did you do it?"

"Bunch of daeva making simultaneous appearances in various places and dispensing books, which I abridged and typeset from the one I found rather than writing outright."

"...clever. Well, we can check 'complete works of this universe's Cam' even if we don't have a way to determine whether this universe's Cam was Revelation, and if it comes up empty, okay, must be someone else."

"Yeah."