"...I thought you were immortal."

"The Valar will get them back eventually but haven't yet because they are evil and stupid."

"Are they hassling them about some thing they want to fix?"

"No they just haven't got reembodying people all figured out yet."

"Okay."

"Because they're evil and stupid."

"I think that's at least the third time you've mentioned that."

"Like I said, people tend to forget.

I am trying to think what questions Bella would ask. Um. What is the most bad thing in the world right now, is it the babies thing?"

"- I think it's mostly things that derive from the babies thing, which isn't the same as problems that will go away once we solve the babies thing. It used to be reds but they're all getting cleaned up and integrated these days. Or at least that's the idea, occasionally there are problems but they're no longer so intractably systematic."

"What was the problem there?"

"Remember how I said the government would worry you'd think we were gross? Since you don't have trash or wastewater or anywhere near as many corpses."

"Yeah."

"Well, the reds were the ones who handled all those things and people thought it rubbed off on them and made them gross. It got really out of hand from there and people were awful to them. But then someone invented a way to clean them, after there was a way for purples to do the same jobs without anything rubbing off on them."

" - okay. And now people are not doing anything awful?"

"Not everyone has cleaned their reds yet and some places do it really incompetently in ways that get people hurt, but the trajectory is really good, and planets would be good for reds and ex-reds too."

"Is there anyone planets would be bad for?"

"...landowning blues who have their finances completely tied up in that and can't recover or profit off being near all the previously developed land? Uh, twenty year olds who are bitter that it didn't happen when they were fifteen. ...that's all I've got."

"Okay. That's pretty good. - want to try to learn a cantrip? That's a small magic that doesn't do much."

"I would love to."

Bounce bounce. 

He makes an illusion of the spell chart for prestidigitation! He explains how to read it. He demonstrates.

She follows along! She prestidigitates! She cackles.

"- you are very Bella-ish."

"You said!"

"It's weird. The spell was wrong but - only a bit wrong."

"With the targeting? Yeah, that's kind of weird but I don't know how it was parameterized."