"How long did it take you to get up to speed?"

"A couple of months to be doing useful stuff, a couple of years before it wasn't obvious that I was from a low-tech world, I still don't know everything there is to know but I'll learn it all eventually somehow. But I had a head start because even before we landed in Warp Boots introduced some modern stuff from Materia."

"Like what?"

"Crystal balls are sort of like computers and also, like, writing and glass and the wheel."

"Well. At least we have writing and glass and the wheel."

"Bells'd be really unhappy in worlds that hadn't invented writing yet." His computer is done. He reads through a few pages and makes corrections and then runs it again using those.

"Yeah. I taught myself to read when I was little, a lot of people can't, especially slaves."

"I tried to explain to the guy who I teleported how he could get in touch with me and he couldn't read. Once we end slavery we can put libraries everywhere and have them serve meals."

"...that is not a usual combination of businesses here."

"That way people have a reason to go even if they can't read and don't think they'll ever learn."

"But why would eating in the library make them more likely to pick up reading?"

"There can be reading programs around, and computers which are easier to use if you can read, and if they bring their kids the kids'll grow up around books."

"I guess that might help. It seems like just getting more people into a few years of school would probably go a long way though, that's where most people who can read seem to learn it."

"Okay. Valinor didn't have school, I don't know much about how they work."

"Valinor is...?"

"A place in Ardas. The one I grew up in. It's safe and no one goes hungry and we don't have slavery but that's about all the nice things you can say for it."

"...those are pretty nice things."

"Yeah. They're important. Boots was really happy when she got there. But it also has gods and until things get explained to them really well they're kind of mean by accident. Worlds without gods can get all of the other things too and it's much nicer."

"How do you tell if a world has gods or not?"

"The gods in Ardas make themselves really obvious. You can, like, go up and talk to them. Materia has gods but they're way meaner and you wouldn't want to get their attention. Nowhere else has gods as far as we know."

"Some people think this world has gods."

"I can try conjuring to check but that doesn't always work with gods. Are they supposed to have personally written or created anything?"

"Aelare is supposedly responsible for the magics."

...scale model of things created by Aelare?

Nothing.

"What are you trying?"