"I - 

"There is something that I want very badly, and I don't even know what it is, exactly, and I think I might be terrified that - we might go back, and still not find it, and then I won't even know where to begin to look for it."

"Okay. Well, I want to leave, so why don't we do that, and then if that doesn't solve the problem we can try something else."

" - yeah. Okay."

Hug?

Hug. 

"I do want the world to pause. Want to be - ready to do right by it, when it moves again."

"Yeah. Tomorrow morning they'll have the happiest mom in the universe, no matter how long that takes."

Squeeze.

"Thank you."

"Well, someone's got to look after you and Alex and Cassie certainly don't know how."

"I am so very lucky I have you, then."

Yes good.

"We should go tell them."

"Yeah. Do we know where Alex is - "

"No but he mysteriously shows up whenever he's supposed to so I bet if we talk to Cassie he'll randomly appear."

"All right. I'll tell her, then."

Well.

Heyyy Alex?

Yeah?

Rána and Cecelia want to pause this world while they go back to Milliways and then - I'm not super clear on what their plan is from there, actually, but they feel like they're not happy here and they might be happy if they go somewhere else for a bit, and they don't want to miss breakfast with the kids tomorrow, so they think the world should pause and wait until they're done.

Huh.

I guess that seems fine? Kind of a ridiculous abuse of Milliways but I don't see why we shouldn't abuse Milliways if we care to.

Yeah, like, I guess if it doesn't hurt anything.

You think they'll be okay alone?

I mean I'm not thrilled about it? 

I guess we did say they could leave whenever they wanted. And apparently they feel like the kids should stay here, so.

Should I tell them you'll set that up?

Yeah, sure. 

It's her that wants to?

Well, she's the one who asked me. I'm not a mindreader.

Okay. Tell them I can have it set up in a bit.