"What kind of a thing is it, then?" says Junia. She is confused, intrigued, focused, but not necessarily disbelieving.

"It's - Mom told me stories about the kind of thing when I was little so I would know what she was talking about later - it's called a spaceship? It's an - enclosed - giant - boat - thing - that goes in the sky, up where there's no air - you know how if you fly really high there's less air, if you go high enough there's none, and this is a kind of boat that can be there and move around there. And there's a machine on it, a smart machine that can hear and - make it rain and stuff."

"How do you know?"

"Well, Mom told me, and I've seen it and talked to it - but it'll talk differently soon because now all the Bells are going to try to fix Jane and she's another machine but she's smarter than the spaceship and she sort of absorbed it and when she's working she talks through it instead of the voice it had before."

"I do not understand this well enough to believe it," says Junia.

"I can't take you up there by myself because Mom isn't sure I won't teleport in front of people if she lets me be able to," says Keziah. "I don't know how else to explain it."

"Maybe I will wait for your mother, then," says Junia. "Will she be a very long time coming back?"

"I don't know. It depends. Probably not all that long?"

"Okay," says Junia.

"Or Dad can do it too."

"Is your dad good at explaining? Or can he go to the... airless sky boat?"

"He can go to the spaceship, I mean. He's also kind of good at explaining though." [Dad, I'm trying to explain Jovah to Junia and I dunno how.]

[Aha,] says Micaiah. [I'll be right there.]

"He's on his way."

"Because of magic?" she guesses.

"Yeah, we can all talk to each other from far away. Mom will put you on the network too if you want."

"There seem to be a lot of things that only your mother can do."

"Dad can do them all, but mostly Mom does them," shrugs Keziah. "And the others of mom can do all the same things."