Cam catches a summons while he's in the middle of Atriama. He's seen it before, it's fine.
Jordan offers to drive them both there. "So, do you expect to need help with anything in particular, or want company while defying the natural order in bold new ways, or did you just think I'd want to be present for same."
"I was actually hoping you could escort the ex-star to civilization if this works!"
"Can do! That's a much easier job than being the first test subject. Not that that would have worked anyways; 's a pretty clear case of trying to cheat and who even knows how things would work with resurrected mes. . . . If dying and coming back is enough to - stars fucking curse it, if you were able to guess the end of that sentence you should definitely not do that now."
"I do not know how you were going to end the sentence except that it's probably horrible curse related."
"Oh good! It is that. If it turns out to be sensible I'm sure you'll come up with it on your own. It might not be even aside from the fact that I was the one who thought of it, though."
"Understood. Do you want to request any specific stars who are still single?"
"I'll try the one I talked to before, then. Is there a good way to make a general announcement to lots of stars, if it works?"
"It's, uh, crossed my mind that there's some chance the non-individual stars might object to the idea."
" - Ahuh. I mean, if you spread the word with any scale at all someone is going to tell it; that's not . . . avoidable . . ."
"Fair. There's not a way to - mass broadcast to the stars or anything, if you've only got one person's worth of attention span; you'd have to recruit people to help or rely on word of mouth or go awfully slowly. - Well. You can aim for heaps of stars at once, just, most of them will probably ignore you and they'll also all be able to talk at once and it's generally considered unwise to pile up too many in a single conversation."
"Sure. Once we see if it actually works." Jordan pulls into the campground and parks next to Cam's RV.
Cam lets him in to the RV - it's very cozy and space-efficient and doesn't have any plumbing - and scoops up Cricket and finds his omnilol.
baby dose is that you
or, I guess that isn't really distinguishing is it
uh
not-cult not-kid, is that you?
My name's Cam! Do you want to try a wacky experiment aimed at bringing you back to life?
Sorry, yes, I'm the not-cult-not-kid, but also I have a name and it's Cam.
ohhh
hello again
do you wanna like, reference anything from our last conversation so I know you're at least dedicated enough to visit the recently dead twice before pranking them
kind of cruel to target this demographic in particular I gotta say
but I'm a good sport, I'll play along