"No need to apologize. But I am not one and a half million people worth of excited yet. If Circe can teach me to cure malaria I will get that excited very fucking fast."

"Yeah. I mean, you can heal malaria, but I can't imagine that's what you're talking about."

"Can I drive mosquitoes extinct?"

"You- could. But that's the kind of thing that fucks up food chains, and also it'd be really big to the point it wouldn't be feasible for you to actually do for a long time, and... I don't know that your world has ley lines, but in our world extinctions are bad for ley lines. Like, if you intentionally drive a species extinct then you're asking for forest blights and colony collapse and tornadoes and shit. The passenger pigeon extinction literally caused plagues of locusts in the Middle East. Please don't do that."

"I think people have looked into mosquitoes in particular and declared them okay to extinguish. There are lots of kinds and only some of them bite humans and I don't think anything feeds exclusively on them. But I will consult a minimum of one real ecologist who knows mosquitoes and check on the ley lines thing before attempting to drive malaria's carriers extinct. Or I'll just aim straight at the malaria protozoan itself, though for some reason I'm guessing that's harder than the bugs."

"That'd be a yes. For one thing, there's more of them."

"I am developing instincts. We'll see how my hit rate is in the long run with those."

"Yep. There are diseases we've killed, though, we can send you home with some of the means for that. Like, we killed ebola. Only after it had mutated and turned airborne and wiped out a portion of the Northeast, but we can totally kill ebola for you."

"...Without, say, first turning it airborne and wiping out some Northeast? I'm all for killing ebola without doing that."

"Yeah, the vaccine for the airborne version got everybody het up about wiping out regular type ebola before it mutated again, so we've got that too. Uh, speaking of which, you got shots at some point, right? Because I am envisioning a plague blanket scenario featuring you as the one using the blankets, and it is unpleasant."

"I got many many shots on Thursday. I whined to Alli about the lump in my arm. She told me to get my butt home if I wanted her to do something about it and otherwise to shut up."

"Ah, good. You don't have to worry about... I'm not even going to pick a horrifying devisor plague to mention. You don't have to worry about those, hooray."

"Hooray. Of course, someone may invent a new one, but if it doesn't progress with astonishing rapidity we can just call in one of Alli to take care of it and vice-versa. For me. The rest of you do not have the luxury."

"Yeah, devisor plagues suck. Mom always locked us in a bunker whenever some asshole came up with one. Now I basically can't get sick, which is nice. Though if I do get sick then I get put in a bunker while they chemically sterilize every inch of my body, because diseases that can hit an ex-5 are a bad thing."

"Makes sense. There is... no known limit to what gemini healing can handle, but there's a reason I'd summon only one of Alli and leave one at home if something came up."

"...Yeah. But there's enough healers around that if something did come up they could get rid of it. The only reason I always got bunkered was that we couldn't get treated without revealing that we existed. The plague management system works pretty well by now. Hardly anybody even dies from plagues anymore, they just import a healer or somebody with good medical devises and keep people quarantined and healed until they can devise a cure."

"Good, good. I will... take home your cure for ebola-and-friends and have a plaque erected to the people who were lost in the acquisition of your disease control measures."

"Yeah. Supervillains kinda suck."

"I don't suppose anybody's managed resurrection of the dead?"

"That would be one of those absolutely fucking not areas of magic. Much, much worse than BITs. No resurrection. Don't do it."

"Is that this same base spell or a different one?"

"Same base spell, different secondary. The secondary basically says 'hey illusion, it's time to explode now!' Lots of fun."