She shrugs. "Its purpose is not obvious to me."

"Huh. I guess I'll tell Lissa to keep an eye out. Anyway, what changes to torching did you have in mind?"

"To the ability to distribute it," she says. "It's irritating to bestow it individually on your alts and their friends. I would rather make it replicable. And you seem to do enough editing of which characteristics persist that it would be worth including that capacity. To distribute the effort even further, you could optionally make the recipient able to modify their own persistent characteristics."

"That sounds like a great idea. I can take that to the party and propagate it to all the other Bells and most everyone else who'd need it now."

She doesn't take any visible action, but: "You are updated."

"Thanks! Anything else while I'm here?"

"No."

Lissa is admiring the flowers that have bloomed on one of the huge archways.

"Remember how I said you were shiny?"

"Yes I do," she says, looking away from the flowers toward Glass.

"The Downside admin is also shiny, but more-shiny like Callahan and not less-shiny like you, and she had a guess about what that could mean, although it doesn't fit perfectly, since her guess doesn't really come in amounts." And Glass describes as best she can the place that the admin mentioned. "Have you seen anything like that?"

"I definitely haven't," says Lissa. "It sounds memorable."

"It does. So maybe you're going to find it, or something. If you ever do I would love to hear all about it."

"Sure," says Lissa.