Despite having gained more than enough mass to do the job, the planets steadfastly refuse to get collapsed.

And the entities' avatars take notice of the attempt. The silver and gold humanoids leave Earth Bet and head toward Cam. "Toward" involves flickering across dimensions; to an observer on Bet it would probably look like that they just vanished.

He can see the silver woman take a detour to her planet, while the golden man appears on an uninhabited world and fires a laser at a tiny winged figure.