"- yes definitely, I can't personally teleport but -" hey Almarë come here a second -

- someone knocks on the door -

Kenyo jumps. Twins leap into each other's arms.

"- oh it's just Almarë since she can teleport and is handling your planet, I asked her to come over - you don't have to open the door, though -"

Kenyo goes and opens the door, after a longish pause before he touches the handle.

"Hi," Almarë says. 

          "Can you go get their parents."

"I'll probably scare them to death if I just show up. I could email their parents?"

Kenyo can recite their email addresses.

She doesn't write them down. "Do you know what you want to say -"

"- uh -" He picks up the girls, sits them on the dining table, sits between them, and takes a selfie. "- that, and we're okay and there's room for them -"

"Got it. Uh, file formats will be fun and I don't want to bother my neighbor again -"

         "Didn't you babysit for him when Kiva wouldn't stop crying for no reason for three weeks straight, he adores you -"

"That was years ago and I don't want him to feel like I only stop by when I need stuff - Kenyo, can I borrow your pocket everything to teleport over and send the email, I'll give it back in like ten minutes."

"......yes. It's at fourteen percent though."

"Then while I'm gone Tannelë can teach you summoning!" She holds out her hand for it.

He sets it on the table.

She picks it up and heads back outside the apartment before teleporting. "Teleporting directly into or out of someone's home isn't allowed except in an emergency," Tannalë says. "First responders are allowed - uh. If, say, you're cooking and you start a fire, or somebody has a heart attack, you can press this button on your bracelet - it's a little tricky to press so you don't brush it by accident - and a first responder will come right away and heal whoever is injured and handle the emergency. They're not law enforcement, they don't carry weapons, they just do healing and emergency services."

"What if there's a domestic fight?"

"If you call a first responder for that all they can do is continually heal everybody and ask you to calm down. Normally they'd call in public safety, and those carry stunners, but the directive for your neighborhood is to not call in public safety ever, because they were worried that you wouldn't even ask for medical help if you expected the medical help might call public safety."

"Oh."

"If they're wrong about that there'll be a neighborhood meeting about that and you can suggest something better and then vote on it."

Nod.

"So, summoning. The most important thing about summoning is that you can do it by accident by drawing a big circle with writing in any language on the floor, so you absolutely mustn't leave kids alone drawing on the floor. Summoning is not hard to do safely but if done by accident it won't be safe."

"...okay."

"What it is is summoning a demon or an angel or a fairy from the neighboring world. Demons and angels and fairies are all indestructible - nothing can hurt them - and they live forever. And they have magic. You draw a circle that specifies what they're allowed to do - they're not allowed to hurt anybody, pretty much, but you have to say it in lots of detail to be very sure there aren't loopholes - and then one of them will notice your circle and show up for it if they want to and you can ask them for things. The safe way to do it is with this little device here - it's on the mantle, and looks like abstract glass artwork. It'll automatically make a safe circle for you. You can set up which circle on your computer. Like, okay, right now you want to charge your pocket everything. So let's go online and look up demons who mention an engineering background -" she searches for that - "and then it'll list what they want as payment, we want somebody who'll do it for fun or for the chance to be the first person to get a look at your world's tech - and then, okay, she looks like a good fit, we can tell the computer to fit a circle for her. And if you press that button, now it'll make the circle in light on the floor, and if she is interested she'll show up, and then we can ask her to design a charger for your pocket everything. We don't have to do it now, but that's how to do it."

"- and then nobody can be first after that so they have to think of something else -"

"Yeah. You might ask for like a thousand chargers, if we do that, so then you can give them out or sell them to everyone else. There's a really long list of people who want to be summoned to learn new languages - they'll automatically get your language when you summon them, and once they know a language they can read new books and appreciate new movies and so on - and it'll take you a while to get through all of those. But yeah, it gets hard to pay demons once you don't have novelty to offer them. That's why, like, Almarë's neighbor is a demon and she babysits for him and he makes her stuff, it's nicer to have an arrangement like that than to summon, in the long run. This is less of a problem with angels and fairies, because they can be paid with normal stuff you could buy for them in the store."

"... a thousand chargers won't take all day?"

"It's instantaneous. Or close enough. Making a whole planet from scratch takes a week, I think. A thousand chargers isn't any more work than one charger."