<Yes. I might try setting up useful social structures in a world adjacent to here, since morphing will make it a lot easier to integrate with the locals.>

"Makes sense. You may want to borrow Joy for finding places; worldleapers are random and you don't know if you're next to something uncomfortably Materia-like until you try it. They can rule out Materia in particular by earwire, but it could be a type."

<That seems sensible. I wonder if I can borrow Epic. The simplest way of pulling it off would be with a demon to save on all the manufacturing.>

"Your guess would be better than mine."

<I do not have a good sense of how much Epic's parental figures try to supervise him.>

"There's a note in Boots's files that if he turns up somewhere and it is not obvious that she knows where he is, she'd appreciate being notified, but that he is indestructible and will probably listen to reason if something is a bad idea anyway. So, not all that closely."

<All right. Well, if you want anything demon-providable while he is here...>

"Coming up with a list of such things is on the list but I don't have it done yet and Cam's expecting to know whether he can replace the Atlantic strike landmass safely soon and won't mind making a few other things while he's here for that if he can."

<Very reasonable. Am I intruding on morning appointments?>

"I cleared everything to catch up on stuff. Lots to read. Surprise surprise people who are me are busy."

<It seemed like there were so many close calls. I guess if all instances of you end up running places perhaps we had more of a margin for error than we realized.>

"I mean, there's still lots of room for things to go really badly and stay that way until someone from another universe saves the day."

Shiver. <There is that.>

"If they'd showed up and found an Empire-conquered galaxy this would be significantly worse than average but not demand a complete reinterpretation of their understanding of the multiverse."

<Yeah. And maybe after enough of your therapist alt we'd even be okay eventually.>

"She comes highly praised. I'd be tempted to poke fun but therapy is kind of a more serious profession when it's practiced by psychics, I guess."

<And my alts are indestructible. That is - impressive work on her part.>

"I've read less of their comments than my alts'."

<If you read Kib's you might have the idea anyway.>

"Loosely. Bells don't work the same way as apparently-you're-Maitimos, he's got a model but he doesn't have it in a way that he can just Bell at us."

Tail-nod. Quiet reading about the multiverse.

"I'm gonna have my lunch with Andi and Renée's dinner, since I can teleport now, want to do some unobtrusive morph and join us?"

<You do not want time in private with your mother?>

"Andi's been catching her up and I don't have anything particularly sensitive to say. Besides, Renée'll like you."

So he morphs something unobtrusive.