[Padparadscha considers it somewhat a waste to hide the nature of their form when it comes out so easily anyway, so they offer a lopsided little smile and tap one fist against their chest. It produces a resonant sort of thud, like crystal colliding with crystal.]

That's right.

[His estimate of the time is the same as the last one they got, which Padparadscha notes - it's more likely to be reliable in that case.] Ah, what an unusual way to hold a world up. But it's a shame there's no easy answer to who's bringing people back and forth, huh?