"Understand electric--need words--"

Odette illusions a diagram of electrons jumping between atoms. "Illia understand electric work, understand magnets, want understand electric make rectangle book and train."

"- I'm afraid neither of us is competent to teach electrician school..."

Sigh. "Understand."

"The, uh, rectangle book, is called a pocket everything."

"Oh, right."

"The thing we'd most like to be able to do," says the senator, "is travel to other planets, empty ones, and send people to live there. Is that something magic could help with?"

"...Probably? Why want?"

"Amenta is very crowded," he says.

"Oh. Magic..." she trails off. "Magic now." She holds her hands a certain distance apart. "Magic later." She brings her hands farther apart.

"Your magic is going to get - bigger -?"

Nod nod.

"Over how long - days months years -"

She makes a wobbly gesture. "Do not-bigger magic, magic gets bigger years, do bigger magic, magic gets bigger months."

"What sorts of things would be good for growing your magic?"

"Do magic."

"Yes, but what sorts of magic are best to do for it?"

"...Bigger magic?"

"I don't know what things are bigger when done with magic," explains the senator. "For example, with computers, it turns out they find math very easy, and identifying birds very hard, even though people find identifying birds easier than doing math."

"Computers? Everything?"

"Pocket everythings are a kind of portable computer."

Nod. "Genosha doesn't computer. Uh--know things magic bigger, not know words."

"Can you do the illusions for vocabulary some more?" suggests Cadra.

Illusion! Herself, holding a piece of metal that seems to be growing more metal.

"Making more - metal of some kind - out of existing metal, growing it? -"