"Do you also want a hug, or want me to hold very still while you give me a hug, or anything."

"Sure, you clearly put a lot of work into this one, you can have a hug."

"Missed you," says Kib, and he hugs him.

"Love you - I'm so sorry, we should've - we should've learned -"

"I should've had my Charp cave in my skull, I chickened out."

He shakes his head and squeezes him.

Kib cries on him a little bit very softly.

"Can we maybe not be in the main bar area -"

"I have a room."

He shivers. He nods. 

He picks up Aydanci.

"Bar can I get the room next to Kib's for them - one room? Two?"

" - Maitimo how soon -"

"Depends how convincingly the person pretending to be me is pretending to be me, right?"

"Assuming him so convincing it's like he's an alternate universe version of you."

"Tomorrow, if Lórien can do the memories. Otherwise a month or so."

"We'll just get one, then."

Cam tosses Findekáno a key and a napkin with a room number on it.

Kib leads them upstairs.

"How long have you been here?"

"A few weeks subjective. Time ostensibly goes at different speeds different places."

"Predictably so? Should we put Aydanci down somewhere to sleep it off in five-minutes-to-us?"

"Not inside the bar, no, but they can pause and sync other worlds when they want."

"What have you been doing?"

"Reading. Listening to music. Watching movies - they're like writing but for entire plays acting and all. Your alts come in to babysit me sometimes, they think I'll be lonely. Mine come check on me now and then, they don't think I'll be lonely but they want to see how I'm doing and recommend me stuff to pass the time and, quote, 'make sure I'm not too behind on everything once it's added up to close enough'."