"Okay. I can probably guess at why he was bad at thinking of things if you want to hear it from me for some reason, otherwise I will write him a letter and you can pass it on - probably I'll do that anyways. Assuming you are willing to wait."

"I'm not in a rush."

Lucien assumes she doesn't want the explanation from him and goes to write a letter to his alternate self. Additionally, he'll save a bunch of Wikipedia articles on cape phenomena and major world events to a flash drive for his alt to read.

"Anything else I should bring? How many people should I expect Turnaround to be bringing back, besides her?"

"I'm not sure of any obvious candidates - maybe someone from the PRT and someone from the Undersiders or something."

"...I am caught up on how you're pals now but I am not their friend and don't want to infect a perfectly nice world with supervillainy."

"I suppose that's reasonable."

"For that matter what would the PRT want with the place. They don't have supervillains to respond to."

"I'm not entirely sure but they came to mind as the group best positioned to deal with contact with a new world."

"...and not, like, the literal government?"

"I think the PRT handled the initial details of contact with Aleph? Though I suppose that very directly involved a supervillain."

"I guess contact with Guide involves a cape too and it's me, but I'm actually feeling very low on bullshit tolerance so maybe I shouldn't try for a big formal thing soon and should just tote May over and back."

"That seems very reasonable."

"Turnaround lives in Jersey City. And I just traverse worlds, not space. How attached are you to Brockton Bay?"

"Fairly? Possibly this would be worth moving though I'd prefer not to."

"If we're gonna we should do it soon before we're too embedded here, but how attached is Turnaround to Jersey City?"

"Plausibly not very, I can ask him. But Brockton Bay doesn't exist there, I'll have to see where I'm at when I land in whatever boondocks are here instead."

"Possibly we can make do with tag couriers of some sort? I'm not sure."

"He sleeps. So I'd still have to make a trip every day."

"Hm? I'm confused - my proposal is that maybe I send a courier with a tag to Jersey City each day and they tag you and receive a tag in turn."

"Oh, yeah, that would work fine."

"What did you mean?"

"That I wouldn't have to make routine trips myself if you two had and frequently renewed tags on someone else who went back and forth often enough."

"Oh, I suppose that can at least help decrease the number of trips beyond what I initially imagined."

"It doesn't take that long, but yeah."