"How long could it be stuck like that from our perspective? Summoning information might be our best bet."

Fenris gives him a helplessly shrug. "So far the progress between all three observed universes looks pretty much random with our original one being consistently slower but at a rate that fluctuates between one to six million times slower than here, maybe it is be stuck like that, maybe next time we check it will a thousand years."

"You said you have five immortality springs?" 

"Yes and I can make one more per month, a bit longer if I spend time developing new aspects to improve it, like the ability to shift away the wings, which I might not be able to do."

"So you can get a lot of people, if they're willing to hide?"

"For certain definitions of 'a lot', yes. Only twelve to thirteen people per year, more if I spend a lot of time sleeping. I do have reason to believe the immortality is hereditary so at least their future children can be immortal."

"I'll make a list. Derek will want his uncle near the top if it helps with whatever's going on in his head. Is there a way to test that without doing it?"

"The hereditarity? I'm not aware of anyway that we could test it that doesn't involve conception one or the other, there had been two births plus a pregnancy among the group that knows, but none of the people involved wanted to risk something weird happening. One of the couples that gave birth actually decided to become immortal after the pregnancy."

"Not the heritability, which I think I'm going to have to look into if no one has. I meant, the effects it could or could not have on Derek's uncle, his like, coma or whatever." 

"Skymages are not typically immortal, the immortality thing is new. And I misunderstood because of the ambiguous use of 'him'. Well, my power can't recover old memories, only restore the ones you had or formed after becoming immortal. It can restore any physical damage. So it all comes down to the uncle's exact problem. If there is enough information there and it all just needs a healed structure to run it, then he can make a recovery after spending a week growing a new body. But it gets more complicated if it is something more delicate."

Stiles nods, and then blushes, averting his gaze again.

"So! Tell me about skymages."

Fenris cracks up. "One thing I can tell about Skymages is that every single one of us has this short range effect that makes the air around us comfortable for us. Culturally, many of us are comfortable with nudity and I'm shameless about it. But what do you want to know exactly? The powers? Or our rich history and culture? Do you mind if we move the conversation to the balcony?"

"Balcony it is.Tell me about your rich history, sounds fun."

Fenris will do exactly that if a history lesson is what he wants. Fenris has recently investigated the topic because the histories between the two universes don't diverge a lot even despite all the magic. He'll remain doing so while naked and will remain amused by Stiles' blushing.

And here is Felix with a tray of snacks and juice. He raises an eyebrow when he notices the scene.

This does not make Stiles blush less, though he does look intolerably smug about it.

He asks many questions about every other sentence.

This smugness might or might not be the reason why Felix leaves (the tray did have two cups and is unlikely he knew about Stiles).

"You're adorable when you ask all these questions."

"Adorable? Puppies are adorable. Kittens are adorable. Snails are adorable. I am not adorable." 

"Really? Then what are you?"

"Interesting? Oozing with charm? Moderately attractive?" 

"Haven't met you well enough to have an opinion on how interesting you're, but I would say you can be enganging in a charming way. And I do find the parts that I can see to be attractive. And none of that is mutually exclusive with adorable."

"Okay, we can find a middle ground. Is Scott adorable, charming, attractive..."

"Let me think," Fenris says thoughtfully, he floats closer to Stiles, "not sure about charming, my interactions with Scott didn't really reveal his charm, but maybe that is just the situation. Yes to the other two traits. But why are we talking about Scott?"

"Me and Scott are kind of a package deal."

"In the sense that you two are close friends or something else?"