They're at the foot of some mountains, and Kaede determines where they should go and they start going there.

"This is the best day. That was the best Bar." She looks at Felix. "It's not true yet, but given Sadde's existence it will be: I love you."

"I love you," Felix tells Kaede.

And a moment later he says, "Sadde, too. I should've said before he went to visit the Golden Coven."

...

...

"I shouldn't be surprised."

"We won't lack for opportunities to tell each other that. This should be a quick trip, anyway. By the way, how do you feel about flying there?"

"Entirely positive!"

She describes how silly gravity is and how it won't affect the gorgeous Felix and then he's flying! She describes no such thing of herself, though, and merely lifts up into the air.

Seeing that is very much on the bitter end of bittersweet.

They make their way to a very Game of Thrones-y city and she explains the situation to the clerk at the Explorers' Guild. Then they start making their way back to the portal.

And Fernando watches it with a neutral expression. Only vaguely wondering what the place's tech-level implies about quality of life for Kaede and Felix.

They do not have Sadde's vision so they don't notice the flickering from miles off, but they do notice it. They accelerate.

They're not fast enough.

Well, at least this means that Katur no longer needs to hold the door open. He hugs the two triplets.

Fernando hugs back, with deliberate movements.

"You will see each other again."

"How sure are you of that? And are there any caveats like waiting a million years?"

"I don't know how long it will take," he confesses. "I just know I'll meet you again, and when I do you will have reunited."

"What level of confident should we be? Is it enough that we could risk visiting another world? Or do potentially dangerous things?"

"Given the way these things work, I cannot say. It is not impossible that by the time we meet again several years will have passed and you will have died and come back to life, see. You do reunite in Elsewhere, however."

"I see. So was my time here worthless?"

"You did practice your magic. And you did meet me."

"I apologize for implying that meeting you was worthless. I have been... poorly calibrated as of late."

"At this rate, you're going to scare him off dating his Fernando."

"My other self already is. And I'm not offended, I meant meeting me was worth it so you could be reunited with your brother and boyfriend and so you could see the past."