"...Is there someone we should resurrect from the dead right now, that looks like it might be a 'there is someone you should resurrect from the dead right now' face?"

"...It'd make a bit of a list," he says, getting the face under control. "Um. Sorry. And most of them would probably... react poorly to all of this exciting news. But there are some people I would very much like resurrected in the near future, yes."

"The exciting news thing is a major bottleneck. You can't have anybody you can't explain or convincingly lie about unless you have a credible case for being able to handle the revelation. I did my own world on the sudden sharp shock model but I had a small, low-tech population. But we can add your world - right, Glass?"

"Oh, yeah, bog-standard there," says Glass. "Not too mean, no competing afterlife or anything. Miles, d'you wanna be immortal? The brand of immortal involves looking like you catch fire and then being restored to perfect health under any circumstance that would normally kill you. It'll fuck with your visible aging, though."

"Yeah, we can do it the long way."

"The admin can use you to triangulate your world even without making you personally torchable," says Shell Bell, opening the world again. "Lean in here?"

"Thanks." He hesitates for a moment, then says, "Sure," and leans.

[Hey, admin, can you add this guy's world without torchabling the guy?]

[Done.]

"Well," says Miles. "This has been fascinating. I wonder what the next completely unexpected and astonishing development is going to be."

"There's a whole checklist when we find a Bell, but you don't have one, so this is a little haphazard."

"I have a question which has nothing to do with integrating the new world, namely, Milo, what were you up to in the Enchanted Forest?"

"Oh," he says. "Uh, I was on a quest. To find you and your wives, actually, and ask you what might be a somewhat personal question..."

[What is it?]

[...How exactly did you produce your children...?]

[A blend of local magics, actually, I didn't need my phenomenal cosmic power. Why do you need to know?]

"It's to do with the broken crown of Raxwell - I'm not sure if you're familiar with the story?"

"Loosely."

"Well," he says. "Reuniting the kingdom by marriage is a pretty obvious idea, but the circumstances have never quite lined up. And then I fell in love with Duke Reko of Ferdinandia. Since the original incident involved an adoption, though, we want to secure as traditional a succession as possible before we try anything."

"Well, our solution won't work for you and the duke, but fortunately on top of local magic I have phenomenal cosmic power."

"...If I'm deciphering the problem correctly, my world has a solution you don't even need phenomenal cosmic power for," volunteers Miles. "Although I'm sure the phenomenal cosmic power will help."

"It's very all-purpose, but if you have some kind of nonmagical solution perhaps that's preferable."