Home again. [Tilly! We're back! How long were we out?]
"Yes," says Agent Honey, "I've been told you're in a similar situation to me and Adularia, but I didn't get details."
Cam reaches into his backpack and takes out Grace. "This is mine." She turns into a hawk, on his shoulder, in a cascade of gold, and starts preening Cam's hair. "She's not very talkative with people other than me though."
"We're just extremely similar," says Tilly.
"And sometimes the thing to say is just that obvious," says Agent Honey.
"Well, Grace is a daemon, like Pathalan or Neptune, although they're both chattier - I think the part where she was a notebook who could not in fact talk to anyone other than me affected Grace some." He pets her feathers.
"Adularia just doesn't like talking to anyone other than - us," says Agent Honey. "And occasionally another Device."
Grace turns back into a notebook; he tucks her into his backpack again.
"It's not impossible," says a new soft female voice that presumably belongs to them. "I just don't prefer it."
"Understood. No need to put yourself out on my account," says Cam. "It is, however, nice to meet you; welcome to Syntropy, and I appreciate the incidental triple- backup syncing."
"Or double in Wellspring's case, our new syncing solution is spread a little thin and only a majority of Belled worlds have instances," Cam allows. "How long has it been in Wellspring?"
Her Adularia shimmers.
"Other project?" says Tilly.
"The Sunshine worlds have a - corrupted version of the Wellspring magical system," says Matilda. "It should be possible to uncorrupt it somewhat, if we get enough high-entanglement magic users spreading positive patterns."
"Ooooh," says Tilly.
"That would be nice. Glass does not approve of those worlds at all. Although not as much as she does-not-approve of Materia, which has a whole separate issue."
"Anti-causality. Regularities of the place stop working if you look too hard or they feel like it."
"I wonder if we can do something about that," says Matilda.
"Are there plans to do something about that?" says Tilly.
[Aether's new aura will fix it within a limited radius,] reports Jane. [Systematic fixes aren't in the works as far as I know.]
Her alts both nod.
"The Sunshine project might keep you occupied for a while if you're going to do them all. We might even find more, since they're so populous."