Shrug. He doesn't know what to say.

They can be quiet for a few moments, while organizing their notes.

Elsewhere, people are talking.

"It was just the first try."

"Well, if you see it our way, every single time we tried to summon someone you wanted to keep them around."

"That's not entirely fair. But I am more concerned with how sick he was."

"Megaera is confident that she should be able to cure him. And depending on how fast it sets in we might have a temporary back-up world." Pherikles argues.

"Very temporary," someone says a bit sarcastically.

Pherikles shrugs.

"Maybe he was wrong about the state of his world."

"Or it was a lie."

"I doubt it was untrue, but worth checking." Pherikles proposes. "And this still is worth trying a second time."

"Fine, but I don't care if it's a sick innocent orphan girl, no more people."

"Maybe she can go with scar guy."

"His name is Vitek," Pherikles reminds them. "Depending on the state of the world it might not be a bad idea to transfer Vitek there or someone from there to Vitek's world."

The meeting continues.

At some point, Vitek feel asleep again. A short doze off.

The girls are gone, but instead there are couple of men. One giant, one not.

They are both holding Vitek's feet. "Hey, there. Our girls had to go, but we are sort of replacing them."

"Your girls?"

"Our daughters. Those girls are our daughters."

"Oh, okay?"

"You have a question."

Vitek thinks for a moment to compose his question. "They each look like one of you. And both of you look too young to have daughters that age?"

"Oh, we had them with each other. Sevet is a shapeshifter. He can take a form that's capable of child-bearing."

Sevet looks closer to Vitek's reaction.

Vitek just blinks and looks Sevet up and down.

"Curious about something?"

"No..."

"Don't make him uncomfortable."

"It's okay, but thank you." He starts squirming.

"Are you uncomfortable?"

"I am... a bit too comfortable."

"We can drop the topic if you want."