"Sounds like a plan."

"My name's Carinna," she adds abruptly. "Of the Enchanted Forest. I didn't say."

"My name's Virginia, but I have alts, so you can call me Pepper. It's lovely to meet you, Carinna."

"I have a nametag but it wound up under my scarf." Carinna moves her scarf. It falls back over her nametag. She growls at it and takes it off and goes to put it in her uncandled pocket, then takes Mossy out of the pocket so it has room.

"Oh, what a cute little... puff!" says Pepper. "What is it?"

"It's a poof!" beams Carinna. "This one is mine and it's named Mossy. Poofs come from the Gentle Cave."

"The Gentle Cave sounds... very positive," says Pepper. "What is it?"

"It's a cave! A nice cave with cute little animals, like poofs, and piano bears, and fluffbats, and pawlings, and cheepingbirds. Kanim found it and said there wasn't going to be anything that would scare me in it so we all went and named all the kinds of animals and figured out why they weren't leaving the cave. It's because they need spring water from in it, so now we have little fountains with the same kind of water and we took pets home. Me and my sisters. Bella's cat promised not to terrorize them."

"It sounds very relaxing," says Pepper. "Do you think I could visit?"

"Yeah. It is and I bet you can. Jane can put you in Chronicle but you have to get to the cave some other way."

"I happen to be able to teleport."

"That's a way," laughs Carinna. "I can, too, but most people in most worlds can't."

"True. It's very convenient, though, isn't it?"

"Yeah. Sometimes I can get the forest to cooperate with me too, but I'm not really good at it. Sherlock does it really well, and Grandma Marianne."

"You live in a cooperative forest?"

"I'm one of the princesses," says Carinna. "The Enchanted Forest gives its royalty some special magic. Bella gets a little bit too - usually she would just get courtesy stuff like being able to pick up the sword, because she married in, but she married two princesses so she can get some of the other things to work, too."

"That sounds friendly!"

"It is! Oh, and our forest is where Bells go to get auras, it can just suck up the enchantment magic. It's getting bigger."

"Interesting," says Pepper. "If it keeps getting bigger is it going to run into something, or is there magic at work?"

"It's only got more room in it, it isn't any bigger around," explains Carinna.

"In nonmagical worlds those things tend to go together unavoidably," says Pepper.

"That sounds really inconvenient," says Carinna thoughtfully. "Can you at least stack places, even if you can't grow them on the inside only?"

"...Yes, I suppose we can," says Pepper. "In fact, most of our cities turn out that way. We run out of sideways and start making things taller instead."

"No, not taller," says Carinna. "Stacked. In the same - box as each other." She starts gesturing; this is less effective than it might otherwise be since she has Mossy in one hand. "Like Bella's rooms, they all have the same door and you go to the one you want."

"No," says Pepper, "I'm afraid not. But we seem to get by anyway."