"They're fairly new arrivals."

"Ani's the me. She's older. And, yeah, her kids are pretty great."

More quietly - "Huh. A you with kids..."

"Incidentally, her son Luke is an alt of you," Ellayania says to Naruto.

" - Wait what?"

"What."

"Huh."

"Which makes Luke a Jubilee alt, too... I can see that, actually?"

Also she's suddenly randomly glad she has never made out with Jubilee. That would be So Awkward.

" - I'm still stuck on 'there's a me with a Hisame as a mom'!"

"...Absolutely no offense whatsoever but Hisame is..." Wibbly hand.

She giggles.

"I'm not sure if this makes it better or worse, but Luke wasn't actually raised by Ani."

"I wasn't actually raised by my parents either... Still, they have each other now, right? And..." Shrug. "Wyld's a lot less - that - than Hisame, though I haven't met Ani..."

"Ani's really settled. And Luke likes her a lot."

"That's good. I'll have to track Luke down at some point..."

"Ani would probably introduce you if you asked."

"I'd hope so. Guess it also depends on who's available when."

"Did the two of you want something?"

"Yeah - Luc' had wanted you guys to look at my Exaltation. Something about a weird stress circuit?"

"Oh, that thing. I had some notes somewhere-" she begins rifling through her pack.

"Yeah. I'm - not actually sure what it's doing right now, though watching you under stress would help..."

Luc' makes a face.

She hugs her girlfriend.

"...Toggling the thing keeping me from acting against Luc' off causes - mental backlash that's a lot like stress - but. I don't like doing that."

Elieyha has found her notes. "It's the one that was sending information to the Yozis. And it seems like it's supposed to induce or exacerbate some kind of response in the normal course of things."

"If - something like that's on me too. We really need to know."

"It's probably worth some temporary inconvenience," she agrees.