"And you arrived together. Although on paper I'm not compatible with mine either."

"Hmmm? ...I mean, Mitros sort of tried to make it work but it's really a pretty glaring incompatibility -"

"Not for gender reasons, my planet has an extra thing, I'm mid-writeup on it -" She turns her computer to display the abstract of it.

He starts laughing. "That's adorable. I like your world."

"I'm sort of surprised it's a one-off. I guess the Arda humans don't have it, but that could have just been Arda."

"I bet if we make it known lots and lots of humans from the other human worlds will immigrate."

"Well, that's hazardous for magical reasons but not prohibitively."

"I'm terribly disappointed your magic has an adjacency limit, Vala-killing at will would be really handy."

"I am at least as disappointed as you."

"You holding up okay? She's - going to be fine."

"Good."

"I hope the lucid dreams and stuff did her more good than you harm, you seem to have gone kinda... perseveratey."

"I really don't know."

"I am sure once she's in one piece it'll mean a lot to her."

"She did appreciate how it made Maira spend a lot of time writing alternate endings to Earth literature."

Snort. "Was she any good at it?"

"She liked her version of Julius Caesar better, hasn't otherwise commented on that."

"She is going to owe you a lot of nice presents."

"What, for reading to her?"

"For general emotional-turmoil-put-through."

"By this logic Maira owes me presents. Except for how she is dead now."

"That sounds like a pretty excellent present."

"If only it had been in time for my birthday."

"Has Loki shown you the dramatic illusion version of her fight with Sauron - most climatic one - they're usually called Sauron -"

"Haven't met her in person yet, Cam says she's doing princess stuff, but I'm looking very much forward to that, my way isn't climactic at all."