He is such a delightful person.

And now she has all of her children in Milliways. Can they go to Kansas now?

"You okay with Colorado Springs instead? It's not relevantly different except the terrain is more varied, which my brother thought might matter to your fairy, and there's an Air Force base there so we have more avenues to intervene if things need smoothing over."

"...Cassie knows the same amount about it?"

"Yeah, they're not gonna be that different. We won't be able to make references to 30s movies if we ever get unexpectedly whisked off to another dimension again. - you have none of the concepts needed for that sentence to make sense so you should probably just ignore it. We'll be fine there."

...nod.

"Great! I'll tell everyone to get you guys set up, then."

He pulls Cassie aside once Alex has bounded off to do that. 

"There's something I wanted you to know."

"...yes?"

"I realize you and Cecilia are - more dissimilar - than you and Karen the vampire slayer, or more than Alex and his evil fairy twin, but I keep getting this uncanny sense you're - the same in the same way you and the vampire slayer one are the same. 

I haven't mentioned this to Alex because he wouldn't know what to do with it. I'm not sure you will either, but - it's good to keep track of all one's plot hooks?"

"...that's really terrifying, but thank you for telling me. I think."

"That's what I do best. - not on purpose, I promise. Good skill out there."

Nod.

Then she will wait around for people to head off to Colorado springs, and maybe consider some sort of uncomfortable questions about Alex's relationship with her other self. And some sort of uncomfortable questions about the shape of her destinies in general.

And when they're set to go they'll fetch her kids and roommates, too.

Cool. She is so grateful that her kids are chill about nonsense and also actually like her. Her roommates take some more herding around, but probably they'll be fine with Colorado Springs, it's not like they had lots of particular ties to LA.

The other Karen's Azalea wants in, too, so they have to pick up her son. He's exactly like Connor, except younger. It's gonna be a lot of people, but hey, lots of people to be moderately okay influences on the displaced medieval people.

They're not actually going to speak the language. I guess maybe you can patch that some with osanwe, but.

Yeah. Kids tend to pick up languages fast but it'll still be rough for a while probably.

More worried about Cecelia. Not that she was probably any less isolated before, given what she said about talking to fairies, but.

Yeah. I'm happy to translate for you two.

Okay.

And they can all head to whatever place they have set up in Colorado Springs.

It's a peeling-orange duplex with parking for one car on a street of similar houses, some of them with trailers in the yard. Both units have four bedrooms, so it's actually quite spacious. The landlord, who is missing one leg, walks them through it. The stove in the left unit no longer has a pilot light and you have to light it with a match, and the fridge in the right unit doesn't keep things cold enough unless you keep it at least half full all the time, but he knows that's not always easy so he keeps these big jars of water in there when there's not enough food to fill it. 

"Plus, then you have water if there's a tornado and the town water goes out," he says, and shows them that the light in the living room is connected to the switch in the master bedroom for some reason. 

The large backyard is full of clover and wildflowers and mint and has a wild blackberry bush in place of a back fence. "City says to keep everything under eight inches or they'll send you a warning," the landlord says, "and after that they fine you and that's yours to pay."

Anyone who knows anything about Quendi will probably think it's really weird that he can't stop grinning.

Unfortunately, nobody knows anything about Quendi. 

She divides up the rooms for everybody, because she is not entirely certain that letting everybody pick their own will lead to sane results. Catherine-Rana-baby, Sigrun-Tyr, Frey-Ingolfr, extra room in that duplex because nobody actually wants to live with the creepy medieval Norwegians, Karen-Azalea, Connor-Connor-Zana, Kate, great grandma.

"Are you gonna find your own place?" she asks Alex. "Because if you're not I think you have to room with the medieval Norwegians."

" - oh, I guess I should try to be around a lot to translate, shouldn't I? I don't need a room through. ...maybe I can make a nest on the roof."

"If that works for you. And isn't against any neighborhood regulations or anything. Sure."

"I will look up neighborhood regulations. If it is against them maybe I can get a trailer. - this isn't anything against the Norwegians, honestly I'd rather be closer to them, Quendi just have weird requirements for living environments."

"Oh. Like what?"