Uh, Matirin might also be too busy but possibly Finleran.

"Is that Matirin's husband or boyfriend, by any chance?"

...yes? How did you know that, it's not public information.

The alternate universe versions of people thing. We'd like to meet him, is he going to be safe in an Earthlike sort of environment?

Yes. Should I warn him you're going to talk to him? Do you have alternate versions of everybody?

Matirin seems to repeat with his family. You have siblings sometimes but not always, never kids yet...

I have a twin sister and no kids.

"What kinds of things are you busy with, don't you have a way to take days off if you're sick or something -"

If I'm sick I morph it away. I take breaks but not unscheduled long ones. I guess you could come here if you also have cures for cancer.

"If you think Finleran's a suitable representative we can talk to him at least until we can get on your calendar, I think."

I can delegate the Malawi Phase 4 logistics meeting, that was going to be all afternoon tomorrow but Fencan can handle it. None of you are busy?

"Oh, some of us are very busy but we didn't get a choice about showing up or not, an unexplained phenomenon collected six pairs of us to the world of a seventh and we're still working out how to get everybody home without losing salient opportunities."

Sounds inconvenient. Okay, I'm going to clear everything from lunch to dinner tomorrow. It's currently eight p.m. Beijing time. Anything else you can't get from Finleran?

"Can we talk to your sister?"

Don't interrupt her on stage or anything but I'll let her know and she'll probably check the email when she wakes up in four or five hours.

What's her name?

Alexandra Swan, goes by Andi.

You must be one of Matirin.

- yes but we also need the name for the magic we'll use to reach out to her.

I guess that makes sense. Anything else before I have my next meeting?

"Can Finleran get ahold of you if anything that hasn't come up yet seems urgent when we talk to him?"

He and Andi and also Matirin's brother Cayaldwin all have priority interrupt privileges.

"Which one is Cayaldwin?"

The engineer? Is that sufficient identification?

"Yes."