"Cool. Anyway, maybe we should go back to the slideshow of tears? I want to see if we can make Fernando emote or if his facial muscles atrophied."

The slideshow of tears never really stopped. Past Katur holds the door just like present Katur is doing, and they follow their shades back to the great warehouse where they set their portals up.

Once the portal to Sadde's Earth settles, Kaede casts the invisibility spell on him and he grows wings. He's visible anyway, but that might be just because the spell anteroactively retains its exceptions for the triplets and Katur.

Eriol does not visibly react when Sadde strips naked which is perhaps evidence that the invisibility spell is working. Or perhaps Eriol merely doesn't care.

"Can your Sadde do that?"

"Undress? I do believe that is an ability we all share. Grow wings? In a roundabout way."

So apparently he can see Sadde in spite of invisibility, then.

"Man, I really hate the fact that Sadde is ultra-pentagamous."

"I'm surprised to hear you say you hate it," he comments, watching his alt fail at getting airborne.

"I meant that he is stuck with five people and it would be fun to have four of him in our lovepile."

Katur chuckles like the laughter is being extracted out of him.

"I have suspicions about how his... ultra-pentagamy... will interact with polyamory, but I do not trust them too far, being unfamiliar with the magic."

"How do you know as much as you do?"

"If you don't count the time I spent dead I'm almost four hundred years old and I spent most of that time refining and developing magic, and my magic system is rather good at information-gathering and divination."

"What are your suspicious about ultra-pentagamy?"

"My suspicions are that Sadde will not ever want to, themself, be with anyone other than the five of you, but that they will not care if you are with anyone else. I also expect they might join in any... activities... where you are involved regardless of who else is but won't have any enthusiasm for others."

"Poor thing, will have to console themself with only the five of us."

"If I understand their magic correctly I do not believe they see themself as unfortunate. It will be... confusing, I expect... to see alts of their mates, however."

"How about the rest of us?"

"You... should probably not open your eyes until the turning process is over and everyone else you want to mate to is around. Or, at least, everyone who hasn't yet mated on you."

"Duly noted."

"We are not sure if the triplets are going to turn. I am likely to."

"If you do turn, you will become as hyper-whatevergamous as Sadde is, though. And, yes, it's probable you'd be able to mate on yet more alts, and you'll meet more. You'll meet my Sadde someday."

"You can see the future?"

"Not as much or well or clearly as I once could, and there are limitations to how much I can see of the multiverse, but yes."

"Could you show us the future? Can you use it to..." Katur waves, "get messages from your future self with the answers you needed in the present?"

"I cannot really show the future, and when I say I can see it it's not anything as high-definition as this. I can get answers to certain questions, almost always vague, and I can know various things that will happen without actually being able to watch them happening. But getting answers from the future was how I figured out that the near-apocalypse was the best I was gonna be able to do."