Once Cam observes that they're doing stairs he's actually just gonna fly. Stairs are evil.

Sure, he can fly down to ground level and take the elevator up.  Andrea will call someone to accompany him.

(And Felicity can just . . . take the stairs!  Alone, with the equinox!  And then wait in her office, also alone with her!  It's fine.  If the relevant body were winged she might try out gliding after Cam but since it isn't she will do nothing so inadvisable.)

And here's Cam's escort, a plainly-dressed woman with a scattering of little wildflowers in her hair.

"Nice hair flowers."

"Thank you.  I gathered them this morning."  Elevator elevator.

And out on the presumably correct landing to regroup with Felicity and Roof Lady.

Indeed.  "Thank you, Melissa."  Cam's guide glides serenely back into the hallway.  "Can I get you any refreshments?"

"I'd take an empty coffee mug - Felicity, anything for you?"

"No thank you."

Andrea produces a hand-crafted mug from a cupboard and offers it to Cam before circling back to pour herself some tea.  "I expect it might be best for you to start with a description of your situation, abilities, and desires.  I wouldn't want to risk anything that might happen if the one provided by my gemini Mr. Russel was incomplete or incorrect in any way."

Cam sips his coffee which is there now. "I am a magical being from another universe. I can conjure arbitrary material objects - material here is a real constraint, I can make crystals but not working omnilol - at quite a substantial clip. I favor universal sapient flourishing."

"Working crystals?"  She sets down her tea in favor of a landscape-oriented legal pad and begins writing.

"Yeah, we tested some."

"Some people are going to be very excited about that, I expect.  Others less so."  She takes a sip of her tea.  "To be entirely frank, my geminis and I favor non-universal sapient flourishing.  I hope we can work productively together regardless."

"Is there a reason you prefer it to be non-universal as opposed to having a priority list for whose flourishing is most urgent to you?"

". . . Suppose we establish a convention where when you say 'you' and when I say 'we', you and I are talking about the group of all of my geminis taken as a whole, without consideration to any uncommon attitudes or beliefs I personally might hold.  Unless specified."

"Sure. I might say 'y'all', I don't know if there's an equivalent here but it's short for 'you all' in some dialects from home."

"As you prefer.  We like it when things go the way we want them to, because we made them that way and not by coincidence or someone else's actions."

"They like control," translates Felicity.

"One could describe it that way," Andrea concedes.  "I would say that flourishing definitionally requires a great deal of control over one's life and circumstances, would you agree?"

"I don't know about definitionally. I think small children can be flourishing without that and indeed it would be kind of hard for most of them to pull it off with it."

"Ah.  I admit I don't have much experience with children."

"Me either but my mom has adopted a few in a different afterlife from mine and this is what she tells me, and that's with kids who cannot possibly come to physical harm."

"That's sweet of her.  Should I assume that you would be telling me about your afterlives situation if you wanted me to know, or isn't requesting details rude."