A couple of hours after Ouroboros Retrograde when everyone has had their time to freak out

[naturaltwohands]

I need to know the identity of a possible Infiltrator. Her name was Gorgonba, but others called her Gran. She was a Gorgon, but had adopted... the elf boy that I was.

[There's a feeling not unlike holding one's breathe, of hope and trepidation. He obviously already has an idea of whom it may have been. There is only one other person he knew whose name had ended in a 'ba'....]

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[forcechanic]

Elphaba.

She used to look after Jey, before she left and joined the Conditioned.

[naturaltwohands]

{Relief and pain.]

... I somehow knew. That it was her.

[forcechanic]

She must be drawn to you. Across universes.

Psychic Protection II

[naturaltwohands]

A better mother than my own.

[Smaller.]

... I must write down what I can remember while I still can. I-I cannot speak to her over the network, so this may be all I will have.

Thank you, Jaina.

[forcechanic]

Sometimes they give us surprises like that.

My grandpa's been alive for two of my overlays now. I never got to meet him, in my universe.

[naturaltwohands]

It's so strange and wonderful, isn't it? I am happy you could meet him in some small way.

[forcechanic]

It's definitely an upside to Travelling.

[They need to find those]

Both versions of him were as great as Mom's stories.

[naturaltwohands]

[Somehow it's more reassuring than anything else he's heard in a while.]

There are upsides. It was good that you could meet him.

Perhaps... I will see my father and mo--stepmother again. Someday.

[Oh, it still aches, but it doesn't burn him to the core of his soul anymore.]

[forcechanic]

It can happen.

Jaunt versions of them, or them coming back into ambit.

[People do, sometimes]

Sometimes we just have to enjoy what it gives us.

[naturaltwohands]

I will keep my eyes peeled for my father, then. Even if he cannot get truly back into ambit, I know he will fight to see me again....

[It's strange how he couldn't think of his father without an extreme amount of pain a few months ago. Now? Now he can almost be wistful. It still hurts, but it no longer threatens to destroy Drizzt.]