Does anyone else see the guy in his thirties doing PDA with the sixteen-year-old?

Xenolev attempts to make eye contact with Noonlight about it.

Noonlight sure does see that! 

"You should! He's great." 

"I'll look around and see if there are any unexpectedly great sons of world leaders."

Whaaaaat do you even say about this.

Levva has gotten distracted by watching Funniest Family Moments - Cute Babies!

Hoooooow about "nothing, for now." Does that work. Can they go back to watching movies. 

They can totally go back to watching movies once Levva has been successfully distracted away from the baby videos.

Watching movies means not talking about parenting or monogamy and that's honestly ideal. 

He is not a fan of how Cascadilev keeps petting Vksha's hair but this is so not a problem he is equipped to solve. 

VKsha is so very very good excellent and Lev is happy about getting to hold him.

Being held by Lev is nice. Not as nice as being held by Kaleva or Chen or Asher but nice. 

(He notices the side eyeing, of course. But — they aren't evil. Of course they don't get it.) 

Let's do this one last time.

My name is Lev Abramov, and I'm a mutant.

I hid it for fourteen years, while my family saved up enough money for me to travel to Beta Colony and get it fixed. After that, I somehow wound up the Armsman of an eccentric count who, despite being a war hero, spends all his days reading Betan economics papers about monetary policy. I found a discrepancy in an accountbook that suggested that someone was embezzling, and then I yelled at people about it until I accidentally wound up yelling at the emperor. Once I was done dying of embarrassment I became an Auditor. Now, inexplicably, the emperor's my boyfriend. I occasionally have to interact with Miles Vorkosigan and I'm still not over it, but mostly I'm pretty okay.

And then--

There is a green flash and he wakes up on Old Earth. Probably New York City, he guesses from the pictures he's seen of Old Earth. 

He finds a library and tries to figure out when and where he is. He can barely read English, but he eventually finds a set of books in Russian. He sleeps in grates and eats from the garbage and tries to figure out whom he should talk to about his knowledge of future tech, who would believe him. 

It's slow going but it is not like he has anything else to do.

New York City continues to be very, very big. 

But the thing about this is: he's looking for a Lev. He knows Lev. And if he were Lev, where would he go? 

Sasha walks into the library nearest Doc Ock's lab in plainclothes and looks around for a familiar face. 

And in the Russian-language section there's a Lev in his thirties taking notes from a history book.

Found him. 

Sasha approaches him and says, "Hi, is your name Lev?" in Russian. 

He blinks. 

"Yes."

"Hi, Lev, I'm Sasha. You were portaled into this universe by a mad scientist, there are a handful of versions of each of us from various universes running around, and I have a place for you to stay until we can get you back home if you want it. — sorry, I know this is a lot." 

"I gathered that I was not on Old Earth from the superheroes. --I don't know a Sasha."

He has an odd accent. It's thick and hard to place, but understandable.

"Not all the Levs have a Sasha and not all the Sashas have a Lev. Everyone who was portaled here is from a different universe from all the others, it sounds like." 

"I am from a thousand years in the future."

"Oh, awesome. Asher and my Lev are going to love you." 

"My planet is named Barrayar. The wormhole leading to us closed and we were isolated for centuries, before we were rediscovered. During the Time of Isolation, we became feudal. I know only a little science but I think I can reconstruct jump drives and uterine replicators and contraceptive implants at least."

"Oh, cool, that could solve Cascadilev's world's fertility crisis too — do you want to figure this out back at the tower —" 

"Yes, that seems like a wise idea."

Lev will get an explanation of the other worlds on the way there.

Sasha will explain as best he can! 

"Hey, guys, I found the last Lev," he says, first in Russian and then again in English.