[ peter does his best to follow along. geralt is a man of few words — he's grasped that quickly enough from their short exchanges prior. which means there's weight to whatever words he does choose to say. he's learned that too.

so when he answers, peter tries to follow along with a rapt sort of attention. new vocabulary for what he assumes is the same thing, and for every thread offered peter does what is in his very habit and swings right for it.

monoliths, he says, naming the singularity as such. it sounds like it holds more significance than peter's definition of monolithic structure, confirmed as he continues. spheres — that can sound like a synonym for multiverses, if you think about them like bubbles, maybe? and gateways are like portals, like what dr strange can do. he's remarkably with you so far, geralt. he thinks. maybe he's also glimpsed sam's conspiracy board a few times over. ] So — you're saying that each of our universes — or um, spheres? That's what you mean by that, right? — have physical gates?

So that means that other beings from different places can get through... [ isn't that idea kind of a bad thing? peter huffs. ]

I just — recently, in my world, multiverses kind of blended over into one another and a lot of magic was needed to fix it — [ don't think about it for too long, peter. ] — but that's the thing, here, I think? I'm not sure what we're trying to fix. Because there's these three different places, that all seem to want us for really different reasons? [ he thinks back to the summit, to the vastly different ideals of each leader. ]

Sorry, [ he supplies, after a short moment. ] — I feel like I'm playing catch up. The board you and Sam did was actually really helpful. [ :') ]