That first statement got a twitch of a smile out of him, lifting both hands briefly in mock-surrender, "If it's good and there's actual milk in the fridge and not whatever non-milk Nik's using now, I'll only use a reasonable amount of sugar." Granted, their ideas on what was reasonable were bound to differ, but that was beside the point.

He snorted at the question, "And that's uh... not a question with an easy answer. Sometimes yes, sometimes no." There was also the fact that his gates had to go through Tumulus every time even if it was just briefly, and that definitely complicated things.

"Sometimes when I gate I end up in the same place, same reality I left from, sometimes it's another one, a lot of the time I don't even notice right away because there are a lot of them that are really similar." He'd gotten better at recognizing ones he'd been to before, at least, "Sometimes I'll get bounced to a new one every time I open a gate, sometimes not. Case in point, I've been trying to get away from the dino dimension for..." He blew out a breath, shaking his head, "I don't know, maybe a week?"