"Hi," he says, glancing around at the planet. "You wanted to talk?"

"Yeah. I need a mint. I can try to hire away Pattern's spare, but I thought I'd try you first, in case 'probably not even in the Milky Way' is far away enough from Chelsa to suit you. I'll be resurrecting Toronto just about as soon as I have coin influx sorted out. I'm gonna put it there." She points at the place.

"You know, I wouldn't have thought I'd want to come back, but a galaxy away is actually far enough," he says. "Surprisingly."

"I hoped so! Anything else we should work out? I'm probably going to install ground rules on Arborea not unlike what other space-colonist Bells are doing, I hear this might annoy you, will routine vacations out of the world do the trick or do we need to think of something else?"

"...Define 'ground rules'," says Corona.

"They will basically make all kinds of antisocial behavior physically impossible. Nonconsensual violence, propagation of unwanted noise, harassment, etcetera - I'm copying the state of the art from Pattern. If you would like to be specially excepted so people can attack you, harass you, and keep you up at night with saxophone practice, that can be arranged."

"Of course."

"No reason to ban it if everyone's having fun," shrugs Tab.

"Some people would just ban it anyway," he shrugs.

"Those people are stupid."

"Thanks!"

Corona grins fondly at her.

[Hey, Jane, can you check with the admin for me that I can get Toronto-minus-Delphi-and-his-cohort?]

[Tab would like to resurrect an entire city that was nuked into oblivion a few centuries ago on her world,] Jane reports to the admin, [and would like to know if she can get it back all in one piece, without the people responsible for the nuking - a fellow named Delphi and the people who were working with him. Can we do that?]

[Yes,] says the admin. [You'll have to move it out, of course - I assume you can manage if I give you a view of the city?]

[Yep! I am such a big Jane these days, I can fit a city.]

The admin instantiates the city, very far away from any existing settlement, and provides Jane with a view.

[That's paused, right? Tab doesn't want it right this second.]

[It is, yes. At this rate local development shouldn't overtake it for about a thousand years, and if you haven't claimed it before then, I can move it.]

[I do not think it will take a thousand years,] Jane says merrily, and she reports to Tab.

"Alrighty," says Tab, and she cracks her knuckles and brainphones Aelise and Kers. [Corona's on board. I'm going to start figuring out the best M.O. for reviving a city, it should be alive again inside an hour.]

[Have fun.]