Off he goes. When he gets outside he starts singing.

This attracts some attention from Chua's neighbors but no one bothers him.

Elsewhere:

"Jesus Christ somebody forked Afternoon."

" - somebody as in some demon?"

"Yep I just got a letter asking if there are times of day free, I don't recognize this demon though -"

"- this is in Hell? We can close the syncing circles -"

"It's not in Hell, it's some island on Revelation Earth."

" - huh. - writing asking for a time of the day is not suggestive of immediate panic - has the demon written anything about it -"

"No."

"You can't go to Revelation, I don't really want to confront a demon who's forking people -"

"What do we do instead, leave him there?"

"No, we should go get him and talk to the demon I just don't know who should do that."

"Oh, you mean you don't want to personally do that. Possibly not a you? Perhaps a Sanity Elf, unforkable... I wish they could hurry up and get that extended to more Ardas."

"They've got new people - and new forks - from those Ardas - maybe we should just not have anyone in public-facing roles who isn't covered - would Ambela want to -"

"Want to go to some island in Revelation to fetch Extra Afternoon? She'd do it..."

"No, want to talk to the demon and figure out what we need to do from there, Extra Afternoon can get himself a fairy."

"Again, she'd do it. I'm not sure she's best placed to handle an interdimensional incident though, if there are commitments that need making or anything."

"The people best placed to make commitments on behalf of the Elves are all mes. And the people who can take a daeva if necessary are all teenagers. Well, and you - I guess you could go invisibly -"

"If they know about forks they might know all kinds of things and check by parlor trick if they hear me."

"Doesn't matter if they know you're there, just whether random panicky people in Revelation do-"

"Well, that might depend on how tense the situation is, I don't think my four hundred year parole sentence was intended to sound to anyone like I might turn up on their doorstep."

Sigh. "Who does that even leave - Michael?"

"Could send more than one person. Him and Ambela or something. Ambela can at least promise to get anything they have to say into right ears."

Sigh. "Okay. That works. If they're not convincingly committed to never doing that again and not saying anything about it I think we stun them and put them somewhere paused for now - is there a better solution -"

"...not an obvious one. If they want something for their silence..."