Shudder.

Snuggle the snuggly cat. "Well, I derailed it all unknowing anyhow."

"Yeah. I'm a little worried about how Telva's alts in the worlds where it happened are doing."

"They are all alive again now but that's the limit of my information."

Nod.

"Could go to Vanda Nossëo and ask after them - there'd probably be two there, Millennia and Elentári."

"Might be worth it. I - I'm proud of them."

"Yeah, they were trying to do a good thing."

"And a hard good thing, my mother is - well."

"Yep. Your alts try to stop her too, to be fair."

"Well, yes. Otherwise I'd be very skeptical they were my alts. But - I mean, my Telva's twenty, it's hard to have expectations about her character yet- "

"She will apparently turn out pretty good."

"And not violently dead at all. - and her poor twin -"

Shiver. "Yep."

"Almost five hundred million -"

"And this region of the multiverse unusually Bell-dense, yeah."

"Thank you. For saving us."

"You're welcome - though it's crossed my mind that the, the sheer number might not be what it seems if they really are exactly alike, if you weren't otherwise going to make it relevant what you were adjacent to ever, if something happens the exact same way a million times is that very different from it happening that way once -"

"Feels different to me."

"Me too, honestly, and anyway you would've diverged if anything had ever happened with the portal ever. Or if the eclipse-when-the-Trees-die was always going to be part of the beautiful fucking story."

"Probably depends how beautiful Eru thinks it would've been without any warning -"

"It probably wouldn't have, but 'warning' could have been, like, 'stupid prophecies' instead of 'neighborly precog'."

"Yeah. And we know that Erus do variants - genderflipping, evil, Space -"

"Yeah. So maybe this one was going to be unique no matter what and I'm not responsible for - effectively forking it."

"...even if you did, it's obviously - worth it -"