Yeah. He leaves.

She shows up at Rana's house and sits outside.

"I'm going to move you to Moonlight Falls."

He does not comment.

"I'm sorry for ruining your life. I'm gonna give you a rock that might make you slightly luckier. I don't know if it'll help but I figure I might as well try it."

She drops a little rock in his lap and zeroes out the debt. And then she teleports him to the Moonlight Falls fairy circle.

She heads out of the forest towards Alex.

Any reason not to bring your family here?

"Are there still random mindreaders around?"

"Not besides me and you. As far as I know."

"Are there gonna be?"

"I'm not bringing anyone besides them and the happy version of your family here for a while. Terrible things keep happening, though, so possibly one will show up anyway?"

"I think you should get them."

"Okay."

She tries teleporting all of his immediate family members to her demiplane at once.

This works. They look startled.

"Hello, sorry for the lack of warning, your plane is paused and I intend to keep it that way for a while, you were brought here because Alex thought you'd like talk to the happy version of your family that I'm about to bring here so I can consult with them about how to solve the thing where a trillion humans are apparently being enslaved by bug aliens right now, nobody tell any lies or great misfortune might befall some people I care about although I'm not even sure it matters anymore, don't mindread anyone without their knowledge because the last time that happened someone freaked out and deafened themselves, and if you have any emergencies, I dunno, yell.

"Anybody have any questions."

They do but will apparently ask them of Alex.

(She floats over to Michael and hugs him.)

Hughug.

I don't remember how to talk. For a while I didn't remember much of anything but now I do.

Okay. Are there things people can do that makes it not hurt to have us around?

Things mostly hurt a lot less right now than they have for the vast majority of my existence. Probably there are hurts I'm not noticing but I'm not sure what they'd be. I guess I like hugs. And apples. And kinds of food that aren't apples. And people. I like people.

Okay. Well, we're all here.

I'm glad you guys are here. I might be kind of a mess but I'm having a really good day, comparatively speaking. Even if the other me isn't.

Well, we're here for her, too, if that'll help.

Maybe it will. She's upset because she hurt the Alex who's a fairy very badly. She didn't mean to.

Is she Catholic?

I don't think so. The one who just lost the fairy is. And has I guess been held captive by a pagan king for twelve years? She might need some help.

Okay. I think I want to know more about everything that's going on first.