"It'll happen incidentally anyway if you hang out here even if we eat this planet. I dunno if you'd rather terraform it but we kinda need a lot of space."

"Arguing with the desert was pretty fun. How much is a lot?"

"Billion people. I dunno if your terraforming also does, like, natural resources besides water and dirt and plants? We'll want metal and things like that, I don't have a complete index of the things like that off the top of my head though. Seems like the kind of thing that... fiends might have eaten... or whatever."

"Dunno, but I can try it and see!"

"Cool! You're good to have around, this is way better than I was expecting to be the best case."

He bursts out laughing.

"...what?"

"I haven't been called 'good to have around' much before!"

"The magic powers admittedly give you a huge edge."

"Oh, if I'd grown up with these, people would definitely not think I was good to have around."

"Oh?"

"When I was a kid I would've burned down cities just 'cause I could."

"Ah."

"I'm still not a very nice person but I did at least grow out of 'destroy everything in sight for no reason'."

"I'm glad of that, as a visible thing."

He laughs.

"It seems like my magic should be able to do invisibility but nobody's got it figured out."

"Yeah? Wonder why not."

"If I'd ever decided to mess with it, which I might not have done - risky stuff, experimental magery - I probably would have tried to destroy the visual impression, rather than the light or something like that."

"...huh. But then what do you do when you want to be visible again?"

"It'd probably wind up being something like visibility to someone or someones in particular, maybe over a contiguous period of time."

"It's weird that that's a thing," he muses.

"It might not be! Experimenting in this direction could easily get the 'whoops, no, try again now without half your leg' result of trying to destroy a nonthing."

Giggle.

"Getting here was likewise a risky experiment, but, yanno."