"You did pretty well the other day."

There are voices and laughter coming from Maitimë's office.

"I'm hoping it's not that you fork worlds by travelling back to them, I think they'd take that a little more seriously or at least anticipate I wouldn't find it very funny. Could be that something else forks the worlds and they just go visiting them, and I guess if there are enough of my mother on the 'what forks the worlds' question then there's no particular reason to enlist the new one a week sooner if they can entertain themselves again. But I'm guessing, I hate guessing. Usually I know. Do you think Timothy looks like me if I were a male human -"

"You've asked that three times and I still haven't met him."

"I could go follow them around to get more data but that seems rude."

Patpat.

"So the real aim here is obviously to do the best of all sets of us at figuring out what is going on. I don't think they had solid expectations about how long it'd take us, Cam looked genuinely impressed with me last night, so either they haven't been doing it for very long or me-now is better at this than me at various other intervention points but I can't think why I would be. What I really don't want is to be the same as most possible mes they do this to, but -"

"But you also want to be the one that gets it right and introducing noise for the sake of being different ruins that? That's very selfish, princess, you should be thinking of the good of Maitimes in your position as a collective -"

"Because if I do, all the other ones will! Or something like that, this is very confusing, I tried to consult my mother but she finds it less interesting than the languages and physics."

Knock knock?

Door. "Hello! Findekáne, these are Cam and Timothy."

"Hi! I hear you are giving my cousin a headache."

"Is it not fun anymore? Should we stop?"

"No no that's no good at all then I lose. Finne, fourth time -"

Yeah, maybe? You're prettier.

I think humans have something wrong with them. 

"Did you like your tour of the city?"

"It was lovely, I'm a sucker for Elf architecture."

"I'm really pleased with it! Maybe we can keep some worlds at this apparent tech level for tourism reasons, unless there are major conveniences incompatible with this size of building."

"Population density and really tall slides."

"I see the merits of the first one -"

"Slides are not practical but they're fun."

"Well, we can travel for them."

"I exaggerate their importance to tourism. You can be all quaint if you like."

"At least for the time being. People won't want to suddenly change everything- we get a lot of complaints that change is moving too fast as it is -"

"Elves."

"Do humans and demons go faster?"