There is some sense that the dynamic has changed but also that this is Probably a Good Thing, which is a concept he is learning. Selenia's been deliberately trying to back off from Sapphire since he had a pretty significant thread with Apple where they both kind of exploded and then talked about all the ways they hurt each other which was a bit of wake up call to how he was using Sapphire as a bit of crutch/ideological punching bag. Which with Mau specifically, when he doesn't know if what he's going to say is crazy and hurtful or not he just opts to...not say it.

Which goes over to the invitation. Selenia isn't going to take the 'not offering an invite home' thing as a rejection or attempt at abandonment. He mainly brought up Apple's invite because that was something on his mind and it happened very soon after 'losing' Nessa but then Mau asked if Nessa even invited him and he realized he was being a bit crazy and deluded and then backed off. Mau not inviting him home was actually a good thing because the thing that made Apple's invitation terrifying is that he would have to make a choice between going to her world and potentially leaving everyone else behind and choices are terrifying! He kind of wanted to articulate that but he has had a bit of a uh, Stressful Time and so he shifted the conversation to Mau's plans which didn't involve anything terrifying on his end.

But he has some Good News for Mau in reserve once things have calmed down enough to actually talk, since Selenia learned a bit about how trauma games work from Jabberwock (and also that Jabberwock listened to the idea of not running trauma games and considered them and all without biting his head off) and he'd want to see if there's something to the idea of there being a Three-esque balance in the way trauma games are run in accordance to Mau's experiences, and also get his advice on what can be done with that information.

How is Jill doing? I noticed Edmund lent her a very strange cat for one thing!