I should have thought of it and I'm really sorry and I'll check and my parents' marriage was a mess but it wasn't like keeping someone chained to your bed for three hundred fifty years - it wasn't - and we don't know these people -

...I kinda know the mes but yeah. Sorry.

I'm sorry for Arda being the way it is, it's wrong and it's awful and I just - didn't think about it - 

Handsqueeze. Not your fault.

"Sorry," she says. "Is - is the alt of you on evil Arda okay? Three hundred fifty years -"

"Remains to be seen. He hopped a couple dimensions away."

"And we don't know where and can't follow him," Cam clarifies for Gem, "we were freaking him out - he went with a friend of Loki's."

"I think he'll be fine. If we don't remove the evil King from power I think he'll eventually go back to him but we've got time, on that, he was planning to be away for a century -"

"...except we don't obviously have an improvement on that option..."

"...and we don't give any other species that behaves similarly this much scrutiny, or any other badly-behaved monarchs if they aren't alts of people we like, we're not going after Loki's mom -"

He pops out. 

Sigh.

Sigh.

"Welcome to the multiverse."

"Thanks. Think we'll head back."

"Kib knows how to come and find us if you want to give us cool magic. Or anything."

"I can do installations of mailboxes and accessories thereto now if you want. Or I can come back later, you can contact me by titling something you write 'letter to Cam'..."

"Which I will do. When it's a good time. Thank you."

Pop pop to Arda - Fingon's castle, he can go talk to his boyfriend on his own time - pop to Mîr.

And then she throws herself at Gem and starts crying.

And Gem holds her tight.

I didn't - I didn't make you fall in love with me with the song or with anything, you'd have noticed -

I would've noticed, soothes Bella. It didn't even happen at the same time. My alts weren't even worried about it, they think I would've noticed too.

I think people were mostly just thinking how does that work, not that - not anything like that - 

Yeah. I hope so.

Sorry for getting upset and ruining the, uh, gathering.