"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."

"I want to be a lightleaper VERY MUCH."

"We'll find a way for you to be a lightleaper."

"Awww."

"- should we be worried -"

"I would never hurt her. You can worry, if you'd like, about what will happen to the rest of the universe if anyone does hurt her."

"She wouldn't want anything to happen to the rest of the universe. She'd want you to keep all the other people safe and get her back."

"Yes."

"But then people might think it's okay to hurt you because nothing bad will happen to them if they do."

"Why would people want to hurt me?"

"Some people are very horrible. They might think you would stop them from being horrible if they did not hurt you first."

"Why do they want to be horrible?"

"It gets them money, or power, or fame, or sex, or impresses other people or is easier than being good or they just think it's fun."

"Those sound like things they can get without having to hurt anybody. Unless they are picky about kinds of fun. I'm not sure about that."