"I know that now. But -

- there's no way I'd risk Kib for any promise in the world."

Nod.

"Didn't infest Bella because kids don't make good hosts, didn't infest Miranda because Minor bargained for her, Tireh and Ambela are recovering - well, Ambela died, but the Valar put everyone back first thing. That's about all you'd need to know, I think."

"Thank you."

"Of course." 

Ruviri goes looking for Sunset.

In his room.

Knock knock?

"Come in," he says, even though the last time he said that -

She opens the door. "It's only me."

...he nods.

He thinks he has an explanation for Milliways; arbitrary horrible things can happen here, to anyone, without breaking the thin veneer of plausibility. It could be real. They are probably going to try, for a while, to see which horrors they can inflict without crossing that line. All of the terrible things conceivable, as long as they could occur outside Angband -

- but any given occasion of Ruviri opening the door, all she's likely to do is sit down in a way that isn't scary and hold his hand and function as the in-scenario representation of some very nice (and not immediately apparent to be addictive) drug. 

He doesn't especially want to be drugged right now. 

So he'll instead play along - "you're all right? They said you were but -"

"I'm fine." She sits but doesn't reach for him; she can tell. "Kib is fine too."

"There's an in-universe explanation for not bothering you, but I don't think there's one for Kib -"

"I don't know why, but I checked for you and they left him and his husband alone." Made a point of asking Evening about it.

"Findekáno's talking with them. I didn't want to - pretend everything was all right, or let slip that it wasn't and have Kib panic -"

Nod, nod.

"What did they tell you -"

"The Yeerks? They said we had to stay in our room - me and Cir and they let us keep Ava, I think maybe Bright told them we needed Ava to pass in food and stuff for us - and if we tried to come out they'd dwindle us till we wouldn't think of anything clever." It was kind of cramped and Ava had to sleep on the floor and she doesn't want to think about what would have happened if they hadn't all been together at the time.

Shiver.

"So we stayed put and we're okay." Nobody even got close to touching them.

"Do you want to go home?"

"We visited after it was all over, for a little while, but I want to be here for you."

"There are lots of horrible things in the multiverse." He's kind of back to wanting to die.

"Yeah."

"I might leave Milliways for a while, stay home, keep my world synced but -"