It is approximately thirty seconds after Communion is first explained that Zenos leaps to the obvious conclusion about its potential, and an agonisingly long time after that before he is alone and able to experiment, but it should come as no surprise where exactly his thoughts turn. The prudent, cautious thing to do would be to test it first – perhaps with Meteion (though she will no doubt take that as encouragement to continue pursuing a friendship with him) or to irritate Emet-Selch (which is... honestly incredibly tempting) – but where his Best Friend Across Multiple Universes is concerned, he has never been given to prudence or caution.
And so, shard in hand and summoning every last ounce of mental fortitude, he reaches out to ask “Well, Beast, did you survive the fall?”
Forward-dated: Post-Mingle, Communion-space
And so, shard in hand and summoning every last ounce of mental fortitude, he reaches out to ask “Well, Beast, did you survive the fall?”