After Cam's magic but still basically human boyfriend has fallen asleep and Cam finds he is not tired enough to do the same, Cam goes downstairs.
"The other set of Valar might be able to fix it but the problem is that the Valar will probably disable summoning, might murder Cam, and apparently do 'collective mind-control' as punishment for things and I am guessing this is not a complete list of their drawbacks as a resurrection solution."
" - I mean, before Cam holed the planet, there were Valar, summoning was disabled, and the mind-control was a thing? And if someone had said to Cam 'instead you can push this button that ends the war exactly like you holed the planet but no one dies and none of those other things happen' -"
" - yeah but we've got Milliways now, we might be able to do better."
"Are you going to cheer him up now -" gesturing at sobbing toddler - "this was your fault."
"I'm going to try to explain things to him because he did it and if he's going to know anything about it he needs to know enough to understand why."
He takes Timothy's hand and allows himself to be led away.
"I know. It's okay. Kids cry over all kinds of stuff - they're hungry, they want their mom, they don't want to clean up their room, they want some other kid's toy - it doesn't mess them up. He'll be fine."
Lean. Hug. "Timothy's just scared they're gonna kill Cam, he doesn't actually think any of this is your fault. I can tell him to apologize if you want."
"I have no idea what magic gods can do. Holing them worked, so - maybe not? ...they can do, like, memory tampering stuff, so they could probably just erase him..."
"Yeah we should definitely be off in Ireland with the door to Milliways closed while there are any god shenanigans, they sound fucked up."