He sighs, "I gather she's inevitably going to find out when Kenta and Heri are older, if this is as firm a circumstance as you say. It seems to me we should either cut her out of this plan now, robbing Kenta of two more years with his mother, or try to keep her from learning that you are alts for as long as possible. Does she need to know that alts even exist?"

"She does not... Do you think the kids can keep it quiet? And I think that cutting her off from Kenta is as bad as cutting Kenta from me."

"I think Tobir could, if we explain why. He will certainly try, at least. I don't know Heri or Kenta well enough to guess." 

"Maybe? I think we should bring in one of my Gabes to give an informed opinion on the matter."

Heri nods gravely at Tobir and carefully closes the book.

He nods, "A good idea," he agrees. He looks down the hall, spotting Tobir outside the door of his room, "Finished? Come hold the door for me, please."

Tobir looks up at his call and nods, going over to do that. 

So Remi heads inside, and begins packing up. First, though, he sets his laptop to downloading entertainment of various kinds, as well as some reference materials. The he heads into his bedroom and packs up the invisibility ring, the mapping visor, the broken communication system - it looks like a crystal which someone hit with a hammer - some documents, and a few mementos. 

That done, he looks around the room one last time, and shakes his head. He grabs a worn jacket from the chair by his bed, and then carries it and his box of things back out to the living room, picking up his laptop and it's charger (and his everything charger) to head back to the bar. 

"I think that's everything," he tells Henry. He shoos the kids away from the door and closes it, leaving it free for Henry to collect one of his cousins. 

Henry suggests them to go to infirmary to keep Kenta company.

He then opens the door to his own world. In another time, that door looked out of a hut, and someone who had seen this view might even recognize the rock formations in the distance.

Everything else has changed, and there is no one that can appreciate the difference. The door opens to a small, but nicely constructed room made out of rock and lattice of crystal for support, and further ahead there is a beautiful archway opening to a street that shows several buildings, they are square but richly ornate with stone decorations in fractal patterns.

There are two Henries on this side, already facing the door.

"I want a Gabe. Any should do." The Henry in Milliways says.

"Alright, hello and goodbye." One Henry says, waving at Remi.

Henry starts giving a summary of what happened to the Henry that remained.

Tobir will follow Heri to the infirmary, box of toys in hand. 

It's a bit surreal - the three identical faces, while knowing that there's a fourth in the bar somewhere. He'll have to get used to that. Remi waves at the Henry who greeted him, and then stays to offer any information the Henry with him misses or doesn't have. He also looks around at what he can see of the world while they talk. It looks nice - definitely like it should meet the requirements of an unusually pollution-conscious red. 

The not-met-in-Milliways Henry has questions, yes.

Two main ones: Why did his communication crystal broke? Do you think they could fix it?

They were not sure why it broke. It wasn't on their end, so it must have been something the team inside the bar did, and they must have been caught in another world which prevented them from simply opening the door to get them again. He doesn't think it can be fixed, no. It ran on a type of magic none of them can do. 

Oh, well, nothing else he could tell them? How it worked? Where they got it? Any idea how hard was it to make. Interworld communication would be so convenient.

"It would be - it was. It was a 'divine boon' from the one who took in most of the reds we evacuated. I couldn't tell you exactly how it worked, but there needed to be a copy of it inside Milliways, and another in the world the goddess who made it - she was called The Architect - came from."

"Ah, a divine effect, might be worth seeing if we can replicate the thing, but probably not."

Two Henries show up, followed by two Gabes. "Hey, there." One says to Remi.

"Oh, good, I think we only need one Gabe, but stay put. You follow us." Henry says to the Henry that was getting clarified.

"No reason not to try it," he agrees. The Gabes get a raised eyebrow, "Hello," he greets, mildly.

He will also follow Henry - the one who was in the bar.

Then a Red, two Henries, and a Gabe can walk into a bar get a table.

"So, what's up?"

"We found another version of us. A small version, with a twin brother. This is Remi, friend of his parents, yeah, that friend. Anyway, we are debating to bring the version of your mother to our world, because of his version of you."

"It doesn't seem that either of you has the same face as your counterparts," he adds, "So it should be possible to prevent her from finding out that you and they are the same, and attempting to separate Heri from Kenta - Kenta being your alt. Of course that depends on whether Kenta and Heri can keep this a secret."

"I was kinda of different and pudgy when I was little. But okay, why do we need to keep it a secret?"

"So your mother doesn't kick up a fuss?"