"I suspect there is math of that. If there is, I don't know it. I was a librarian in Heaven, too, actually; I prefer books to numbers. There are eight other angels on Earth right now. I can ask them if any of them know the relevant math."

"I like books more too but it sounds like a math thing to me."

"Yes, it rather does. It just wasn't urgent for me in particular to know it before now. Like I said, I'll ask around."

Nod nod. "Does it grow back? The power to do stuff?"

"Oh, yes. If it didn't I'm not sure God would have been able to make you at all. Last time really took it out of Her."

"Maybe she can just pause the universe, and take a really long nap, and wake up and be really miraculous again!"

"That's a good idea, but pausing the entire universe would be a very big miracle by itself. Even moreso if it affected Hell and not just the material world. Keeping a timestop going would probably be low enough maintenance that it would be worth it in the long run, but she won't have the energy to do that for a long time."

"Oh. Are there any things that recharge her faster than just waiting and not doing stuff?"

"Human and near-human attention, for some reason, which is why religion."

"Oh. Maybe I should start a religion. Or fix a religion. Or fix lots of religions."

"If you decide to do that, you're probably in a better position than anyone else. But given that people are people, don't be surprised if a considerable number of people who are currently using bad interpretations of religion denounce you as the anti-Christ or similar."

"Yeah... I think I will think about that later when I am not tiny and easy to ignore and when I have cool powers."

"One thing I know you should be able to do early on is healing. Healing, at least in small doses, is a pretty basic divine ability. Next time you scrape your knee or get a papercut or something, try focusing on making it better yourself before coming to me with it."

"Okay. Do I have a battery to worry about too though?"

"Yes, but you should be able to feel it if you approach the edges of what it's a bad idea to do. If you try to heal yourself and you get a feeling like you're about to overextend a muscle instead of nothing, don't push it, but it means your powers are coming in."

"Okay. Do I recharge off attention too?"

"Some, but not as efficiently."

"Is there something I recharge off efficiently?"

"No, but it's a tradeoff--you use energy more efficiently on Earth than other forms of divine being because you're Earthly as well as divine."

"Were the rules just already like that even before the Earth was made?"

"Not exactly. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that you operate more efficiently in the human sphere because you're human as well as divine. Because you have the kind of self-sustaining spiritual energy that human souls produce, you aren't as hampered by the tradeoffs God made when She created humanity in the first place."

"Huh." Pause. "All those other worlds where there are more mes fixing other worlds, do they work like that?"

"I don't know."

"Maybe they don't! Maybe they have already figured out other ways to do stuff, and God could copy them!"

"That would be pretty great."