The fairy holds still and waits to go invisible.

After about ten minutes there she goes. "Okay, if you follow me you'll come through the gate."

And through she goes.

He glances from his father (who is sitting rigidly looking in the other direction) to his grandmother. 

"No entanglement.

- and now there is."

" - that's my son," she says a bit incredulously. "How long has it been?"

Promise re-visibles her.

Then he will run over and give her a hug.

"Lohte, how long do you need - I can go tell them to wait -"

"Another twenty minutes or so."

She nods. "Lohte says another twenty minutes or so."

"Okay." He paces.

Cam writes down his mail label for the new Bell in case she wants to write them later.

Pelape tries to play a pocket everything game to kill time. It doesn't work.

And eventually - "everything's squared away."

"Did the gate, uh, pay for your grandma?"

"Yes, close enough that the rest of the entanglement'll fade quickly-seeming-to-you if you're slowed down when I die."

"You in the crown, in what denomination will your clerical friend prefer his compensation?"

"Gold."

"Say when," Cam tells Lohte, and he starts stacking up gold bars.

And eventually - 

"That's enough."

Cam makes a wagon, starting underneath and lifting them off the floor in the process. "Does anybody want to give him the gold for me, I hate killing people."

"Not positive I can kill him in one shot and have to worry at all about my technical evil."

"Same, though I can almost definitely kill him in one shot if he's not harder to kill than a human without combat experience."

"I could...probably kill someone if I really needed to do that?"

"This is pathetic. Give me a gun, I'll do it."

"Even a human will not consistently die from a point blank shot to the head, what kind of gun do you have in mind?"