In Milliways, the front door opens.
"Aydanci I'm sure you know better than I do. - There was plot, it skipped them and is over now but everyone will be a bit shellshocked for the foreseeable future, details on request?"
"I told mine it would be much more unpleasant to be in Kib's head than mine. I think she believed me."
"I am unclear on, uh, why they don't find it unpleasant to be in anyone's head who they're making miserable, they don't act in other respects like they're universally sadistic -"
"I'm not sure. It took me a lot of work to pull together to try to steer mine at all and I didn't cover the topic."
Kib has progressed to the point where he can let his husband take unsupervised showers. "Hi."
"Some things happened. They were upsetting. They're over now. Details available on request, is how Ambela thought I should put it. Maitimo might not be visiting for a while."
"They were pretty plot-y. If they'd affected you we don't think we'd have gotten you back. He's - he'll be okay eventually and there's nothing anyone's expecting you to do to be helpful on that front or anything."
"Yeah. Have you tried shortbread, last time Cam was up here he made us shortbread and we got around to trying it. It's more of a cookie than a bread."
Pause. "New Bell from a world with scary mind control, lot of people got scarily mind-controlled until the Valar stepped in."
" - turned into a demon for the invulnerability to the kind of mind control, Ambela is singing to her a lot. The Maitimo from that world also daevafied for the protection; he's a fairy."