:Hmm. Bringing Ma'ar here did not seem very complicated, but - well, he was very little, he had less opportunity to accumulate complications and bring them with him. I...agree that this seems different. I am not sure which case I would expect to be more typical: 

:I hope we're not going to go out searching too soon, we are already accumulating quite a stack of worlds to deal with.:

:I do not have any leads on particular other worlds to explore, and I intend to at least see Ma'ar set up in Predain before I involve us in any other commitments: He shakes his head. :Though it does leave me wondering if somewhere out there, another me - or another you, I suppose - is doing their own search: 

:I mentioned this to my father and he said it's got to be unlikely. Because Golarion is more powerful than almost all other worlds - Aroden determined that when he searched the first time, right, thousands of years ago, that there weren't many worlds he could use or more easily interfere in - and because if someone had a cheap way of finding worlds, such that most worlds would be found by neighbors, then we should expect to be in a found world not an unfound one. So there's not a cheap way, and our world is the most powerful, so - probably we have more resources with which to be looking than anyone else.

Send your family my good wishes. And they're invited over any time, you know. Kids like playing on sandy beaches and we have the best ones.:

:Of course: 

Leareth hugs him goodbye and then Gates himself back. And pauses to sit down and cast Lesser Restoration and Recharge Innate Magic, three interplanar Gates in one day is really too many and he should remember that and grab someone for a Plane Shift even if it's slightly more inconvenient. 

Feeling much better, he gets up, splashes some water on his face, and goes to see what Carissa and the children are up to. 

Ma'ar is studying magic in his room, something he does a lot of. 

Carissa is reading Aspexia a children's book about Iomedae.

Awwww. 

Leareth sits down with them and pets Aspexia's hair. 

Leareth is honestly much better with Aspexia than she is, she's not quite sure how to interact with people who are too young to be reassured by you visibly not having any incentive to kill them. She tries to read Aspexia books and spend some time playing with toys with her anyway because the nursemaids think it'll help Aspexia to feel like her mother isn't a stranger but Carissa feels like her mother is a stranger and it seems like a fine way to be, really. 

"How's Khemet."

"Well enough. He was mostly trying to be reassuring to me, I found it disconcerting when Tadesse was - the way he is." 

"It's pretty disconcerting!"

"I feel more hopeful that he will be all right eventually, I think. Possibly regardless of what we do, though - I do still want to figure out how to help better. Hugging him helped, I think, when he was crying... I suppose that is quite a normal thing for people to want when they are in distress about something."

"Is it? I guess it is."

"You wanted me to hug you and stay with you, when I had just found you in Urtho's Tower," he reminds her. 

"But we were married! If we found another Golarion and it had a Carissa in the Chelish army and we showed up to grab her she would not want hugs at all. Or - she'd misinterpret them, and find them reassuring in the wrong direction."

"Mmm. You think another you would not be reassured just because you were the same person?"

"I think that'd make it more terrifying, because if you are redundant than people have less reason to keep you alive."

"Huh. That is not how I feel about other mes at all! ...Or how I expect I would feel about other yous, or other Khemets, or whoever else. I - would not expect to have the same relationship with them, there would be some weirdness there, but they would matter to me." 

"Yes, I think this is the being Chelish, not intrinsic to anything. Probably your alt in fact finds hugs reassuring."

"I think he did not want a hug from Khemet but he appreciated a hug from me. ...It does feel odd, that he is me but does not know Khemet at all. Or you. It keeps feeling like he should trust you already, but why would he." 

"He doesn't even have Thoughtsensing so he can - oh, we should give him Aroden's amulet."

"- Oh, yes, that is a good idea. He can read me as well, it - might help him feel less lost, seeing the shape I am now. ...Or it might not. Khemet was worried that he is jealous of the other versions of him, here, who have better lives in so many ways."

"I bet he is but even so it's less scary to have more detail."

Nod. "I will ask him in the morning; he is probably exhausted right now. Though possibly I ought check in on him anyway, to see if he needs anything or - wants to talk about his conversation with Aroden, or something."

Nod. "He seemed all right earlier, when I checked, but I didn't stick around."