If I can, I will. Whether I can may depend on how this particular venture goes. And boy, will that wrench the cycle around a fair amount - but she can cope with that. If nothing else it'll start a new one.

She has to pause for a moment, first to appreciate that Cairbre told her this much in the first place, and second to really relish just how much the Travelers have surprised everyone. I had a feeling they were stubborn enough to get on our level, if they had a chance to. Sounds like they're taking every opening they can find.

And now, the more serious stuff.

I take it the Automat's fine, or you would have said. I don't know what could be done to stop them exploiting archetypal subversion, and I don't want to slap restrictions on them without really thinking it through. They'd just see through it and work around it anyway, and then we'd all be in trouble. In the meantime, they're not considering how hard it is for twenty of us to reach a consensus, and there's, what, five times that many in your group?

Whatever took out poor Star must have been especially wearing, if they agreed to abandon her.