"My logic goes something like this: Magic where I'm from does that sort of thing all the time, so it's obviously possible in principle for magic to work that way. And there are at least two planes where magic and most of the rest of reality work in two very different ways, so there are probably more, and when I'm farther along the road to being a god I can see about finding one with the kind of convenient magic I'm looking for, so even if I can't get what I want here, I can still get it."

"That sounds much easier!"

"I thought so!"

"What's your kind of magic like?"

"I don't actually know hardly any of it, and there's a bunch of different kinds. But it's, you know, what most of the infrastructure of society is built on."

"I think most military things are based at least a little on magic, and Genosha's infrastructure is, but I think for most of the rest of the world less so."

"I suppose when science is available it's probably a more convenient option. Especially when you can't make magic items."

"What can magic items do?"

"...I'm genuinely not sure where to start."

"It might be interesting to see how much they overlap with technology!"

"Fine, then, what can technology do?"

"Possibly we should find Illia for this conversation."

"Mm?"

"My sister. I mentioned she was engineering-track earlier?"

"Aha!"

"Classes don't end for another ten minutes, but we can wander over where hers is in the meanwhile."

"Sure."

"She's going to throw up her hands and declare that if anyone was going to have someone from another universe land in their lap it would totally be me."

"Hey, I didn't land in your lap."

"Idiom!"

"I know, we have the same one, I'm just being silly."

"You do? That seems improbable."

"Does it?"

"Idioms are usually pretty different between languages, aren't they?"

"Not invariably. Pax and Laefarrin have a bunch that are close and a few that are the same, and they're not that closely related."