"Yeah. I'm curious about where it comes from."

"Me too, if it didn't just turn out we generated it after being created. Also if we disappear and get resummoned – I know, horrible, but still – if we recharge. Plus the fact that creating even more of us would, you know. Let us have more mana pooled."

"Why's it horrible? It didn't feel like much to me, I just sort of appeared somewhere else."

"The 'creating more of us' part is kinda horrible, though, unless you mean literal copies of you? Is that even possible?"

Sun sun sun sun sun sun...

"It was kind of horrible to know that I just lost time," he says. "I don't know if that's possible, no."

"I'm not sure it's that horrible, like – they're copies and they seem to be functioning fine, it'd just be if they could stay around for stuff by being housed somewhere, and like, if it's not that bad to be temporarily disappeared then you could just wait until you probably have money from this and resummon them then, later on."

"We lose time whenever we sleep, it's not that different."

"And you seem to forget that one boy's copy who decided he didn't want to be alive. I don't think copies are guaranteed to be alright."

"… Okay, but like, you get that with regular non-copied people too."

"I hate sleep too but at least I know it's time accounted for instead of time that I literally skipped over."

Shrug.

"That's sort of my point, we can't guarantee much about whoever we'll create, it could be terrible, and creating people all willy-nilly is... enh."

"Well, we could see if we can get another Theo or another Tyler, in that case, specifically? Unless they don't want to be duplicated. Or one of me, actually, if you can do that but with magic."

"If I knew for a fact we could duplicate people exactly I'd want a duplicate of mine, but lacking that..."

She shrugs.

And Theo continues to write 'change' on a few pieces of paper until he presumably notices the 'low mana' feeling.