“But if I did once by accident I wouldn’t immediately give up on them!”

Do you have perspective on this -

I'm kind of confused. I think she's - somewhere between 'relying on the fact there's no one alive she cares about for her bargaining position' - not with us, necessarily - and 'doesn't want to owe us a favor' and 'scared she won't care about them anymore'.

Who else is she bargaining with? The Presger?

Must be. I guess they did kill a lot of her friends to teach her a lesson a while ago.

If she's interpreting them right.

Yeah. I think she's right that her friends aren't a priority, anyway.

Yeah, recent accidental death is probably good.

"Are anyone's worlds likely to impose restrictions on who can be resurrected - lots of countries forbid resurrection of a person who was executed, for example -"

"Well, we can't take anyone back until we've sorted that out. I don't expect we'll care if people resurrect them somewhere else?"

"I'd imagine an outcry if they were resurrected somewhere else that either kept them in bad conditions or didn't have competent population governance."

"- yes. We should probbably insist as a general principle that no one can have immigrants or resurrectees or conjured Amentan babies or anything until you've got laws existing signatories to our treaties have approved of."

"We can accommodate anyone you can raise who died on our world."

"We lost a ton of people but also our planet and are colonizing a continent on the Arda, but, like, we're not too dug in to relocate if there's a better idea. ...where magic works ideally but we already can't keep using it to cook dinner and are working on policy there so replacing its more essential functions seems doable."

"How long does it take you to make a planet?" he asks Cam.

"A few weeks from scratch, longer if you need the star new too, less if you want me to terraform an existing rock but that's less multitasking-friendly."

"And we'll be able to pay others for it, once interdimensional transit is set up?"

"Sure, if that includes transit somewhere summoning works. You can find hobbyists to get designs out of and anybody who'll work long-term and can fly a spaceship for the making."

He is so happy.

"So we probably want to go around testing all the universes for which magic works there, and what happens to people who are conceived and born and killed there, and then we can figure out where the spare planets go."

"Wherever you want, lightleapers go to arbitrary destinations in five days."

" - what, really? How does that work?"

"I wasn't reading engineering papers."

"I want to be a lightleaper."

"I have read the engineering papers. I didn't understand them but maybe one of you two will."