The Elves make plans to contact Revelation!

"I don't know a good way to convince random people in Charlie's old house to let it be an interdimensional communication hub, do you?"

"Money?"

"They do have demonproof currency arrangements in Revelation."

"I wasn't planning to counterfeit it. We have lightleapers and it looks like mostly better consumer tech than them - and a couple thousand catalogues of music and literature from different universes, though I wasn't planning to offer those to the humans..."

"So you want them to extend credit. To home invaders."

"I want to establish ourselves and then buy the house."

"I will have to continuously hold the door for time in which to establish yourselves to pass. In their house. This would be a problem even if I ditched the wings and tail."

"Are you sure of that? Time hasn't been paused in Revelation since you walked in here."

"...okay, I don't actually know for sure, my door situation is weird."

"I am hoping for an arrangement by which you do not need to hold the door, and we write you when we want it open again. Maybe we can ask Bar what that requires - maybe after opening it to Revelation opening it to Hell or Arda?"

"Bar might not know, lacking the ability to personally run door experiments."

"Well, it seems like a cheap test - the worst case scenario is that we're stranded in Revelation and that's not actually very inconvenient, we could still correspond."

"Yes, I suppose, you're even forkable-home if you want."

"Yep. Or if you need us for anything, but I think the rest is pending on whether people can daevafy anywhere outside Revelation."

"If only somebody would die."

"It's terrible."

And when they are ready (two Elves and forty chips in their pockets, all invisible) they wait for Cam to sneak them into formerly-his-dad's-house. 

Cam holds the door and watches them hop out the window. They are not caught by whatever resident is singing in the shower.

While he is checking his mail periodically in case they have anything to report, he remarks to Timothy, "You should probably actually tell Miranda you know about her parents."

"I - did? I said that we were going to continue being careful around things like peoples' families and peoples' orientations, despite how rapidly I expect them to become irrelevant."

"Which... solidified her position that you probably suspect but does not tell her how much detail you have or if you've guessed the right thing or even actually guarantee that you know anything as opposed to being generally magnanimous."

"- okay - and those are relevantly different? I mean, if I've communicated that I'm not going to hurt her, what additional benefit is there -"

"While she is using her conservative do-not-tell-anybody-even-if-it-would-certainly-be-fine-because-that-only-gets-to-leak-to-the-wrong-person-once strategy she cannot drop the pretense around you without knowing that you in fact know."

"Okay. If it's meaningful to her I'll tell her."

"Or I can but I wasn't sure I wanted to explain why I know you know."

" - yeah, fair. If you didn't throw it off for some reason I was going to put up a privacy spell such that he didn't actually hear you. And be very worried but that's a different story."