That's fine then. It should keep her passably occupied for a pretty long time.

A week passes.

We might actually wanna talk to the kids in Milliways, if that's feasible, given the number of language barriers involved here.

We're having to do all kinds of dimensional shenanigans with Milliways and its time-stopping thing but I'll attempt to put in a request and maybe someone'll figure out how to open a door to here.

Time is meaningless there and your family's immortal, right? It seems like that should make scheduling stuff a lot more painless than it would be otherwise. But if it doesn't work I guess we'll just have to pick between going through Cecelia a lot or making heavy use of osanwe.

No, I mean, while anyone from here is in there time can't pass, so since time is observably passing there must be no one from here in there right now, and probably they're in a different place for some reason which itself retains access to Milliways but possibly they're no longer in contact with Milliways, or something.

....or the door's already open, right?

...or that, yeah.

I guess you can ask. Assuming you have some means of contacting them.

We can at least start by checking if the door's open.

It turns out that it is.

Then that's probably the place to have this conversation. And she and Alex and Sigrun and Tyr and Frey and Cecelia and presumably Rána can all get a room and talk this out.

Sounds good. Or likely to be stressful and unpleasant actually, but important.

"We want to speak to our father," says Sigrun, when they're all sitting down.

"We don't have a great way to do that, unfortunately."

"Can't you get him the same way you got us?"

"So the problem, as I understand it, is that there's an undying demon of some kind who possesses, and seizes control of, the person running Scandinavia. I don't know how it does that. I don't know, if we bring it here, whether it'd instead possess and seize control of someone else, or whether we'd fail to grab it at all and find ourselves instead with the human he was possessing."

"Or whether it would work, and we could talk to him."

"Yes, it might work fine."

"We want to talk to him."

"If you brought him here he would be able to access everything that Milliways has access to. He would attempt to use all of that to bolster his control of his empire and gain the power he needs to crush the only peoples that can still stand against him."

"We are not bringing any demons with the power to possess people to Milliways. We could maybe drop a two-way radio on him or something."

"He would probably order the children home, then."

"I don't think we're going to let an undead demon continue to run around conquering the world on behalf of eleventh century Scandinavia and I don't want to return any children to the crossfire there but I'm pretty in favor of letting them talk to him."

"They might be sped up right now, relative to him. It's kind of unclear."

"You don't know that we are. And we want to talk to him."

"Cecelia? I feel like not letting them talk to their dad, even with supervision, is - a lot more questionable than not wanting them to be raised by him."