"Thank you. We haven't spoken in a couple years - she didn't ask if I wanted to come - not that I'd have been very good at it, I don't think -"

"Is arson a really complicated skillset?"

"If you don't want to get killed, and if you want to actually accomplish stuff - there's, like, who to target and when and how to make sure innocent people don't get hurt and don't starve afterwards - mind, I'm not sure how careful Atyel is actually being about those things -"

"Starving is no fun."

"Yeah. I don't know if it makes anything better to burn plantations down. But I know she, like, asks the slaves who work there, so presumably they can - figure out the tradeoffs that seem worth it - did someone starve you -"

"After I ran into the magic I stayed there for a while until my owner managed to sell me and Cathei to the guy you met while I was still in it. There was a loaf of bread with wings but after I ate it all I got pretty hungry."

Shiver. "I should give you money for - food and baby stuff and everything -" He starts digging around for that.

"Thanks!"

Money. Smile. If she leaves and doesn't come back he's going to have - complicated feelings about that but. "The family is Finere, if you need directions back or anything."

"I probably won't get lost. It'll be easier to carry stuff if I leave her with you..."

"Right, okay." He holds out his hand for the baby.

Plop. Sleeping baby in his arms. "I will fetch her back when she's hungry if I'm not nearly back by then. I can actually do that with dishes in general, she just counts all the time."

"You can fetch dishes to you from any distance?"

"I have to know what dishes I want specifically."

" - would you mind if the government wanted to use that for international communications or something -"

"Like... summon one plate for yes and two for no, or something? Uh, I guess that wouldn't be so bad?"

"Can you write things on the dishes -"

"Never tried it."

"Well. We could try it and then if it works people could take dishes with them and write notes and you could summon the dishes and we'd have one-way fast communication, I'm sure there's a way to get rich off that -"

"...sure."

" - you don't have to."

"I don't really mind teleporting dishes, it just seems weird."

"It's definitely weird! It's just an exploitable kind of weird and the faster we can make money the sooner you're both free."

"Thanks."

"Of course."