He made everyone dinner and ate with us but Rubelite was elsewise occupied. She has a selfish excuse, and general leeway.

The only summary I got from Khemet was 'she's a bit of a spaceship, Anaander loves her, I'm not sure she'd ever met a human before'.

She's a hive mind like Anaander but an artificial one; the human bodies including what is visiting us are modified in some way to participate. I don't think she ever met a human before. Khemet has suggested that he might not want to let her go back to the rest of herself even if it became possible. She'd been coping all right before that.

He seems like less of an obstacle than impossibility, honestly, but I guess if you've never met humans before then maybe they're a more stressful sort of adversary than physics.

Everyone around her was treating it as a probably temporary inconvenience - talking about trade agreements, Cam being in a terrible hurry, the scry on Annie worked - she was learning a lot of very new and very interesting things that distracted her, and - it's at least as distressing that he might have a point, that she might be obliged not even to try to get around him if he says she has to stay, it's not just that they might disagree and he might be hostile to her interests and try to enforce that. It seems to be an awfully personal sacrifice to have to make. Anaander doesn't seem to care on her own behalf about the missing body but I think she both has more bodies and considers them and their experiences less individually interesting to the whole.

And I don't think Anaander has much affordance to care about things, here, either. 

I bet we can come up with something for Rubelite eventually. Lots to work with, here.

Yes. But I think that's why she wasn't - conspicuously - upset before and is now. I'm not sure how inconspicuously upset she may have been before, I have too little context on what it's like to be her.

That makes sense.

I am going to try to track down Indis's alt in the hopes Ingwe has one.

She is probably asleep.

In that case I guess I will have to wait on that.

In the meantime I can catch you up on everything else, including what I've gotten of the local language over the last couple hours. And she does.

And in the morning Khemet calls everyone to a meeting room except Cam and other people who are busy or something.

Rubelite sticks very close to Cor, and is nibbling on a breakfast pastry.

And everyone else shows up too. Except Cam who is busy or something. Pelape counts identical-looking Maitimos.

"No one has arrived since last night, so possibly we are done. Some other good news: Abadar can see all of your planes except the Ardas, and expects magic to work normally there, though none of you have our afterlives. Abadar thinks neither the Radch nor the Presger pose a threat to Golarion, so you two can go home, though do note that if the Presger decide to go to war over something to do with our dimension it'll still probably be very very bad."

"Why does she think that?"

"He. He can see your world and what sorts of things they can do and can't do, and they can't move between dimensions, and the gods are unified in not wanting to help them if they might destroy the world. All the gods agree on not permitting the destruction of the world."

"But you said magic will work normally there."

"By all our planes except the Ardas do you include my original, Cor's original, where Cam is from...?"

"Magic will work normally there. That implies they will eventually have very limited access to dimensional transit, in forms the gods can prevent if necessary. They monitor a lot of threats of comparable scale.

Abadar says those worlds are more distant and divine magic won't work on worlds that are too distant but that he can still observe some features of them."

"...can he see the world we put the disappearance points on? My original planet probably still has atmosphere and I can get to the colony from there but the empty planet is stabler."

"I didn't know to ask about that in particular, I'm sorry. If people want to put a list together I can ask more in a bit."

Cor writes this down.

"I'd kinda expect my original world to be technologically ahead of even Anaander's by now, I left thirty thousand years ago."

"Most places wipe themselves out when they get too advanced."