Hug. "You're doing great."

Hug. "M'trying. I feel like - I can definitely come up with a ton of spells pretty fast here, just - I'm not really prepared to entertain and take care of a dozen people right now."

"Especially when they're all weird and have weird issues."

"Yeah. That does make it harder. Especially, like - a bunch of them are scared. And I don't want them to have to be scared that - even if I don't hurt them I might not be prepared to keep them safe and taken care of."

"Yeah. Maybe once we've - taken a break and slept and stuff - we can ask people for advice on what counts as good security in their world, see how much of it you can duplicate."

"Yeah, that might help. But it's not just that, it's like - we have a bunch of these people totally dependent on us for food and water and all of their interactions with the outside world. And I want to make sure they have everything they need, but I'm not sure I should trust me to think of everything, and I'm not sure I should trust the other me's to, like, say, when they need something."

"Does seem kinda like the sort of thing people who are you might not think of. - and their mes might not think of it either? 'm not quite sure."

Nod.

"I hope they don't, like - dislike us. I'm not sure whether that's petty or not."

"I think they kind of think we're reckless kids. Which - we might've looked cooler if we'd waited longer but I don't think we would've been better."

"Yeah, maybe. I keep thinking - like, if I'd waited I would have looked less stupid and less presumptuous, right? But also if I'd waited I wouldn't have been making as good of use of this time. Like - the reason they're here is that I thought they would be able to help me figure out what I should be doing. And I feel like they totally did that."

"Yeah, that's what I meant. Waiting would've been about looking cool instead of figuring out the right thing and doing it. Plus, you know, if you wait and don't try much and don't involve anyone else, what kind of spells are you going to get."

"Yeah. If I want to progress as quickly as possible, I kind of have to be always reaching for some of the hardest stuff I can do.

" - should we be going back and checking if any time's passed?"

"Guess so."

So she pops back. "How long was that?"

"About ninety-three seconds."

"Drat. Well, either way I have to sleep. Anybody need anything first? Anybody from my dimension wanna go home? Alternatively, do you want me to keep our dimension probably progressing on fairy time?"

People don't really especially have opinions about this.

He is describing Fazil and Mahdi to Matt. "You might not know them, I hadn't met them when I was Connor's age."

"I don't think he has. Sorry."

"No worries. Just thought I'd check."

"Would they be particularly good people to have -"

"I don't know. But we don't really have security, right now, you know, in the sense of 'people who are very hard to kill and good at handling shit' - and probably nothing's gonna happen, but -"

"I'll think about whether there's another way to solve that, yeah."

"Thanks."

Then he also has no requests of the Diamond Queen.

Cool.

To Connor, Do you wanna sleep here or at the house or in the fairy circle?