"Awkward! Do you have a plan yet?"

"Third day I said to someone disgustedly "what if we put you two on different moons and made the homeworld a separately administered tourist destination?' and both sides said emphatically that if it meant those horrible other people would be forced to stop living here they were all in favor, so that's tempting, but we're probably not actually going to move thirty billion people because they can't stand their neighbors."

"If you have any high-variance strategies that pay off in under an hour fifteen minutes you know how to reach me. Is residence on the planet religiously significant?"

"Under some interpretations of the relevant religions but not all of them. They've got a couple moon colonies that seem to manage their lives just fine."

"What neighborhood are they in?"

"Oh, this is in Edda. If we do want to relocate 'em it'll be really easy."

"Was actually wondering what happens if you duplicate the planet, but it's probably a bad idea."

"...might work. It'd be hilariously excessive but that'd probably do a fair bit of quelling in itself."

Shrug. "I'll check it for you if the Tesseract can quickly duplicate a planet, Cam takes too long for me to help."

"And has better things to do with his time. So does Loki but I think she enjoys solving problems with breathtaking displays of unfathomable cosmic power and maybe enough of them will cheer the Tesseract up."

"We can hope!"

"If I were the Tesseract I'd be cheered by hilarious planet-duplication projects but I get the sense I have very different interests than the Tesseract. Anyway, we'll drop you a message if we're thinking of trying it."

"Make sure you read the protocol document for how and when to direct my attention to stuff. Your alt's free now." Pop.

"Oh, Isabella, hey!"

"Hi! This is an alternate universe version of you."

She glances assessingly at the alternate universe version of her. She raises an eyebrow slightly. Who -

Maitimë - well, mine's a boy - that's part of why we're here -

- huh. Is she okay -

No. She will be, eventually. 

"Isabella I have a plateful of truffles, want some of them? Or all of them? Thank you for dragging my alternate universe version over, apparently they weren't going to do it themselves -"

"We were super curious but there's ten of us, and apparently you're running a country -"

"Two." Truffles?

"Oooooh truffles. You're welcome." Nom.

"Do I not usually end up running a country or two -"

"Super path dependent, turns out - Shine's Maitimo's - usually the Vanyar don't really require any wrangling -"