"Maybe avoid having people wake up in Milliways."

Squeeze.

"Should we have moved Kib to our camp or had you wake up and then tell you to go write for a ride?"

"...I don't know enough about what the resources available are to have an opinion on what actions should have been taken. - How did you get tea so fast, or is that me missing time -"

"No, no, that's not the same thing as long as it seemed continuous to you and everything accelerated happened somewhere you weren't looking, this place does asynchronous time."

"...okay, if you have time pausing capabilities and Kib didn't need me urgently I would have rather woken up at home and been reassured that everyone was acting themselves and had everything explained to me. Instead of waking up in the middle of. Everything being on fire. With about a fourth of a clue."

"Okay. If we find more of you we'll do that. We don't have time pausing capabilities here, time just does its own thing."

"They can pause time in worlds. They could've put me in a paused world and got me after."

"I really really oppose putting any of you looking-for-plot types near the door any more often than absolutely necessary."

"Anyway, nothing urgent was going on."

"He sleeps sometimes, doesn't he? He wouldn't need to be awake near the door."

"I mean, the door is an actual risk of unexpected things happening and I doubt he'd be thrilled to wake up somewhere other than where he fell asleep either. ...for future mes do whatever's convenient, I think."

"Future mes just kill while you're killing everyone, unless Lórien needs us for the memory dump and there're no other Ardas available at that point."

"Understood."

Sigh.

"It's nice to meet you," she says to Aydanci, "I'm Kib's Elf alt Mirelótë Ambela. I have heard only good things."

"...it's nice to meet you too, you seem very Kiblike but I am very short on knowing what's going on."

"I've been following the whole thing well enough to explain it. Or they have it written down, I think."

"Whichever is better for you."

"Mirelótë where do I find the written down thing."

"It's titled 'Centralized Summaries'. Do any of you need me for anything else?"

Kib shoos the paused movie and rummages in his computer for it. "Aydanci might want a computer from Cam later but not right now."

"Catching up on the summaries sounds like a good next step."

"Well, you don't want to all four crowd around Kib's computer trying to read at the same speed, you two can come with me and get your own."