"I can make zucchini seedless. Some foods the seeds are the thing you eat, though, like... pomegranates. I guess I could just make pomegranate derivatives. Or run an actual test with small seeds of things that I know can grow in this climate."

Nod.

"I sure hope I think of all the things like that before I, uh, annihilate the universe." Sigh.

"Well, if you forget there's still the other universes. ...right?"

"...I mean, there's the daeva realms and Limbo, but I was including them too."

"A time - problem - would probably destroy them too?"

"Maybe. I don't actually know that this is even in fact a risk, which is pretty damn frustrating, but - like, I was born in the year 1987. I grew up in a world that had certain properties, which affected me. It's never exactly been important to my life that squash verifiably did not grow in Europe until New World crops in general made it across the ocean, but in fact I lived my life in a world where that was the case, among other things that I could also potentially affect. So imagine I go around madly planting squash from here to Rome, and then the future is one in which there was squash in Europe at this time. Then when 1987 comes around, even if I am still born, I can't go on to have the life history of someone in a world where there were not medieval European squashes. And then even if I still travel back in time - then we can't be having this conversation - because the example doesn't work - because of there having been medieval European squashes - because of something I did - and I don't know what the time travel that happened to me is doing. Maybe things don't actually have to line up neatly, maybe everything's just been rolled back and I can prevent my own birth outright and nothing happens going forward. But it could be that the only reason everything's still proceeding to exist is because I haven't had any effects that interfere with time looping back in a consistent manner. I'm sorry if that was confusing, another thing I shouldn't introduce to human culture early is the idea of stories that deal in things like time travel but I've had exposure to enough of them to have some practice with thinking in these terms."

She bites her lip. "I think I maybe understand? It sounds very stressful."

"It's very stressful and it's going to be way worse during time periods when specific things I know about and want to change much more than the vegetable selection start happening. Certainly a lot of things I'd want to change are going on right now but ones that were belabored as horrible tragedies in my history class are going to really hurt."

"Do you...want a hug?"

"Yeah, all right."

She leans against him and is briefly confounded by the wings and then manages.

He drapes them around her and hugs her and sighs and lets go before it can get weird. "Thanks."

"I'm sorry. I hope you all figure something out so you aren't just stuck here waiting for forever."

"I can do things besides wait. Stuff with faeries, since faeries didn't interact with me before."

"Unfortunately, they are faeries. Maybe you can improve them."

"So I hope."

Faeries manage to generate lots of certificates for him to cash in the next few days. 

"It's working so well!" Bounce bounce. "Everyone's trying to think of favors they can do each other so they can get your stuff."

"Cute. Intracourt only?"

"We have some requests to come visit. My brother's sorting them all out, if you have any questions I can pass them along."

"I'm just generically curious."

"I think it's having a bit less of an effect elsewhere but still enough of one they have stacks of certificates and lists of orders and we're trying to figure out the most convenient way to arrange for them to come get those delivered. - the court's not set up for a lot of throughput, we might want to cut out a path so that there's no chance of people trampling things if we get a lot of volume."

"Trampling things?"

"We get guests, we escort them in, there's no problem. We get a hundred times as many guests, they all leave with as much exotic food as they can carry, some of them stomp our greenery, now they're in our debt. That still happens occasionally right now, to be clear, it's just rare enough to not be a very big deal. But it'd be a big deal if we didn't catch it or if we were overwhelmed with it."