"If I visit you every day they'll probably assume and I really don't have anything else to do."

" - thank you. And if - I you think of anything I can do for you, I will, obviously."

"Thank you."

She takes a little while to think of anything else to say. "What's Vigil like? I haven't been out of Cheliax, except on deployment."

"I haven't gone far, it's not clear if I'm actually welcome to go take walks or anything. It's a bit chilly, but Ibyabek's a warm planet, a lot of places probably seem chilly to me."

"It's pretty far north even for Golarion. Cheliax has nice weather, doesn't snow in the winter except in the mountains and it's not often too hot to be outside even in summertime."

"It doesn't snow anywhere on Ibyabek besides the poles and the very tallest mountains. I've never seen it. Except from space."

"You really are from another world, huh."

"...as opposed to?"

"Crazy. Or confused. Or lying. I wasn't sure. I didn't really think through - all of the things that it'd mean, if you were - which was pretty stupid, obviously -"

"What would it mean?"

" - that it's a really big deal. It'll change the wars here, and the wars in the Outer Planes. A lot depends on - who manages to contact your world first, or whether the gods find out about it and negotiate a treaty - and in those negotiations it'll matter who was closest to contacting your world -" Shrug. 

"Why will it matter who was closest?"

"Uh, imagine two people hate each other, and they walk into a room with a powerful weapon. And both of them want to use it against the other, but also if they use it they're pretty likely to get killed themselves, which they strongly disprefer, and it'll destroy lots of the cities, which neither of them really want. And they can - make promises that are magically unbreakable. They might - promise to dismantle it together. Does that make sense."

"I suppose."

"Gods do a more complicated version of that, all the time, so all the actions against the interests of other gods cancel out and the only ones that proceed are the ones that don't or that they care about much more than anyone cares about stopping them."

"Huh. But what does that have to do with how close various people were to contacting my galaxy?"

" - one of the ways the thing they're doing is more complicated is - okay, so if you burst through the door to the room with the weapon at the exact same time, maybe you just agree to dismantle it together. But if one of you is first through the door, and considers it likelier than not that they'll be the one to deploy it first, they don't have a reason to agree to that anymore. So the other one might - pay them, for the agreement to dismantle it - this quickly gets too complicated for mortals to think about, but even if they end up dismantling the bomb the one that was closer to using it will get more concessions."

"...all right."

Shrug. "It's not very important most of the time. I mostly hear it brought up to make a theological point about why the actions of the gods aren't comprehensible, not to make - strategic points about when to tell them things... but I should've thought about it." She sounds like someone who is faintly cheered by the idea that she is in her situation for a reason that is at least kind of her own fault.

"It sounds very hard to do... anything... with gods around."

"...I guess. But on the bright side you don't just...stop existing forever."

"We don't really dwell on that much."

"I guess people can get used to anything."

"Probably, yeah."