"I think that went well, they seem very reasonable."

"I feel very vindicated in my decision to include you."

"I am not sure their emphasis on working with alternate universe versions of people they already know is constructive but in this case it was useful."

"I can see how they might have arrived at that equilibrium. I think it's holding them back in some ways but I'm glad we could make it work for us, especially considering the importance of the issue."

"And we have a fair bit of flexibility to do it differently here."

"I'm sure if I ever find an alt, he and I will cooperate very readily, but I do not at all feel moved to base the entire structure of a budding interdimensional organization on that. And the same goes for Esarkan, on both counts."

He takes a moment to update Elaneth-imire on the situation. (Interdimensional osanwe: so useful!)

He is so glad his father found a way to make those people be reasonable. He would like to go fling his healing aura over some planets immediately.

(He heads home.)

Healing a few hundred planets sounds like the sort of thing Elaneth-imire'd enjoy, yes. 

So he kisses his husband and gets the intermediary hops from his father and bounces off into the multiverse.

It's weird going out of range of home, but maybe he'll be lucky and his soul will overcome the limitations of adjacency - it is definitely correct for them to be able to reach one another's minds no matter how far apart they are -

Yep, can still hear him. Well, that has interesting implications.

- guess not. Well that's disappointing. (Unless Maitimo's just playing with him - would Maitimo do that - yes he probably would - presumably one day he'll find out which it is and in the meantime he loves his husband very much. Even if it turns out that Maitimo is deliberately leaving Taliar to miss him.)

For all of ten seconds, though if Taliar's going to mope over missing him it'll be tempting to leave him for longer.

He gets back to work.

Taliar is not especially mopey. He does miss his husband, but he's not sure that Maitimo can't hear him, so it's not as bad as it could be. He'll be very glad to get back to him when he's flung his healing aura over all relevant planets, though.

He finishes flickering through all the stops between Nuime and Warp.

"Come in," says a voice from inside the office he's landed outside of.

He goes in.

"Hi. Elaneth-imire Taliar, nice to meet you, please throw me at some planets."

"Certainly." She has a list ready and a map with pictures of the stopoff points.

"Thanks!"

Off he goes. Anyone within several astronomical units of a target planet will find themselves extremely healed.

Presumably they appreciate it.

It takes him an hour or so to get through them.

Then he returns to the hall outside T'Mir's office.

There is a brief delay this time and then he is again invited in.

"All done! Anything else while I'm out here?"

"Did anyone mention to you the possibility of de-radiating Cube's Earth?"

"I can go throw my healing aura at it and see if that helps. If not, my soul will probably branch something for it pretty quick."

"We'd appreciate that." Directions to Cube.