"It would not be hard to write up a spell for deleting things from existence," she agrees, "but it would interrupt my working on general-purpose resurrection. Maybe if I find myself without enough tasks to task-switch to."

"How goes general-purpose resurrection?"

"It goes, but it's certainly decades out unless I suddenly go into a panic about someone who needs to stop being dead yesterday and does not have a specific-purpose option handy."

"I will tell all the people who'd inspire such a panic to stay all nice and alive, you've done enough of pushing yourself through spellwork at a screaming pace lately and now you have a boyfriend you'd leave lonely."

"It's true, on both counts. He might mope. It would be awful."

"We'd have to go run and find some more Bells to cheer him up, but I doubt they all come in 'known as Godslayer, solved all his problems'."

"No indeed, not that he isn't fond of Iobel. Who is lovely."

"I think I ought to be pleased with my counterpart for noticing which, of everyone in his kingdom, ought to be put in charge of it. But on the other hand, marrying a woman. What a human thing to do."

"You considered marrying a woman for several minutes before you decided you were hallucinating too much to use it as proof that you weren't hallucinating. Anyway, it's not an Elf-style marriage."

"I remember that! If I'd known that the marriage would be dissolved in a few years anyway I would have gone for it, but then if I'd known that I wouldn't have needed to."

"Oh, I don't blame you for not doing it, just pointing out that it is not exclusively a human idea, though being human makes it make more sense for him."

"I'm sure I'll get used to the idea eventually. It's actually my father who I have the hardest time to come to grips with as coming in 'human'. I'm better than him at languages. That just shouldn't be."

"Does an eidetic memory necklace not close the gap?"

"Oh, it mostly does, and my father's hard at work on a working memory one at which point apparently the Marlatians will surpass us all. Still."

"Iobel's really looking forward to that! Optimistically, if there's not some undiscovered hard limit in the system, her spell development process could jump to 'sort of like mine only it takes a few days'."

"...wow. Mitros wanted to rule the stars before his society knew what they were, I guess he's going to get his chance."

"Well, she'll still probably have the six-a-day one-if-it's-big limit, she suspects the system won't self-break like that, but combined with all the transmissible magic we can dump on her head, yep."

"What's adjacent to Hex, do we know?"

"Space Arda. Otherwise nothing yet explored."

He smiles. Real smile. 

"I don't know if I ever thanked you for my being alive, but lately I find myself actively preferring it sometimes. So. Thanks."

"You're welcome."