Snuggle. :Sounds good.:

He waits for Ma'ar to be awake, explains the plan to him, and then gets up and raises another Gate on the doorway. 

And another Urtho steps across. He looks barely older than the other Urtho; mostly he looks like someone who's spent a lot more of his recent years worrying. 

Ma'ar stares in amazement, suddenly feeling too shy to say anything. 

Leareth waits for Vanyel to cross back, and then dismantles the Gate. "Well, we had better go tell local Urtho we are ready to meet. Carissa, would you rather come or stay here?" 

"I'll come with you. - hi," she adds to the new Urtho. "And I can give you Tongues if you want your Predain to be sharper -"

The new Urtho beams at her. "I am so glad we managed to find you! - And your bracelet is still working, excellent, durable as hoped." 

"Yes! The other you admired it." It is nice to have Leareth's shields around her again.

"Yes, thank you," Leareth says in response to her question, nodding briskly, and then leads them all out into the hall. They make an odd procession; the older Urtho pulls the hood of his cloak over his head, presumably to avoid confusing anyone about Urtho somehow being in two places at once. 

The local Urtho is already in his office, and answers the door immediately. "Ah, good morning, I wondered if it was you - oh, what a sweetie!" he adds delightedly, seeing Dierne in Ma'ar's arms. "Come on in - I will find some other chairs– oh!" He's spotted the extra Urtho. "I - incredible - you made the incredible artifact, yes...?" 

"I did! And we should let Leareth speak before we talk about that." 

Leareth's lips twitch. "Ideally yes. Urtho," to the local one, "I wished to inform you that I intend to return home this morning, with my wife and child, and I would like to take Ma'ar with us as well. I - think it would do him good, later, to return here, but...for now I think he would benefit greatly if he could learn from me, and I have a country to run back home." 

The younger Urtho blinks, then nods. "Yes, I see, that makes sense." He turns to Carissa. "I am very glad for you. You must be so pleased to have your husband back." 

"I am. Thank you so much for your hospitality and your protection."

"You are very welcome!" 

"I will come back again before we leave," Leareth offers, "if you have further questions for me, but in the meantime, I would like to be with my family, and help pack for our departure. I think the Urtho from our world can do a better job of explaining most of our context, anyway." They are absolutely going to spend most of it talking about magic rather than politics, but that seems fine. 

"Yes, of course, I would be delighted to." 

"One moment." The younger Urtho turns to Ma'ar, crouches a little so their eyes are level and, without any sudden movements, rests a hand on Ma'ar's shoulder. "Good luck," he says gently. "I want you to know that I am very proud of you, and - I have a present for you somewhere but I cannot just now remember where I put it - I will ask the hertasi for help and my other self can bring it over after." 

"Thank you." 

When the farewells are done, Leareth takes Carissa's hand again. He would offer Ma'ar his hand as well, but Ma'ar's arms are currently full of baby. 

She clings, a bit. Suddenly it is unbearable not to be home.

"It is going to take us a day of travel in the Void to actually get home," Leareth warns her, apologetic. "We quickly discovered it was not feasible to cross the relevant distances by Gate, so Urtho and Vanyel would travel in our vessel and when they had located additional words from the Void-side, I would join them to search." 

" - that's really cool. And probably has lots of other applications."

"Yes, I think so. It - would have been harder to justify, to spend so long looking for you, if not for that. Though...I honestly would probably have done it anyway, I love you very much, and - there are game-theoretic reasons not to abandon one's allies, right, and Nefreti's involvement - or my assumption of it, anyway, technically I was not sure until you confirmed it - made me think it likely that something interesting was going on..." 

Ma'ar walks beside them, quiet but looking incredibly fascinated.