Cam laughs. "Well, I can tell you it won't work on Aurora if she's got her aura out, and not on Golden with her super-senses, and probably not on Sarion either, although if she determines that you're trying not to be noticed she might politely ignore you. Anybell else it'll depend on their attention and what powers they're deploying right then. And if you like hide-and-seek where one or more parties are egregiously cheating, try Pattern, she has a stealth aura feature."
"The royal family of the Enchanted Forest has a connection to the forest that lets us do various useful things. Only the reigning monarch has full access, but heirs and descendants can manage little tricks. Mine is finding. Finding people, finding objects, finding my way, finding a shortcut."
"Seeing if the forest'll talk to me. Either it's not a coherent entity by itself and I'd have to address an individual tree, or it is feeling unfriendly, or stuff on this world doesn't talk even as much as stuff on other non-Syntropy worlds tends to." He turns to the nearest tree. "Hey, tree."
"Uh, on Syntropy, everything talks, trees and stars are as smart as humans and it varies on down from there, stuff wizards talk to gets smarter. On other worlds I've checked out, stuff talks, but nothing is smarter than grass - which is to say incredibly stupid."
"The Speech is useful even if you aren't a wizard. I haven't been able to make any other Bells wizards, but I think that might be just because they're too old. Aegis is youngest, at fifteen, and even fourteen is pushing it - I was fourteen when I got wizarded up and that's much older than typical. I might be able to wizard the miscellaneous Bellspawn except Dominique, but I don't know if that would get Iggy's attention between worlds, so it'd require thinking about."
"It's not its real name, but when I was fourteen it pretended to be a rock named Iggy to talk to me. It's sort of an - evil god? It's a Power. And it's really unclear how powerful the Powers are, like, I'd be surprised but not astounded if they could reach across worlds with something like an offworld wizard to get their attention. And every time a new wizard comes to be, it tries to kill them. Jellybean and Matilda saved my life."
"Iggy doesn't usually try very hard - either that or it's got seriously limited resources - and it doesn't try more than once. I have a student, it sent a rabid dog after him, when that was taken care of nothing else happened. And if it's noticed anything I've been doing since pealing and minting it's been quiet about it. I can't really figure it out."