"The thing where I'd want to eat everybody I met sounds inconvenient, honestly. If they sort that out yes."

"Mate thing freaks me out."

"Yeah, there's that. I'd want to know who it was going to be like Bella did."

"I assume Cam checked for an alt of Bella's husband in this world? Maybe the witch with foresight could figure it out..."

"No alts of any of Bella's people anywhere, no."

"Once we get the promised working memory we may be able to duplicate the speed and strength thing without the 'drinking blood' one."

"I am so looking forward to our sudden leap in interdimensional relevance."

"Me too!!! It's been wounding my pride just slightly, how many of our alts already wield unspeakable power."

"I find it validating in the sense that I know I'd have managed the same in their position, but yes."

"There's that.

I haven't been sending my Elf dad letters pointing out that 'very soon now' was two years ago, but I have definitely written a couple of them. And I have all these plans for letting everyone else on Hex vote themselves our citizens all drawn up."

"Ooh, do we get to upgrade our titles to accommodate ruling most of the planet, do you suppose."

"I certainly think that we ought to! Your alt's an empress, do you want to be an empress."

"Yes I do."

"The only problem I see is that it doesn't leave us with much space for title escalation once we rule several planets."

"Hmm, true. I suppose we could make things up but they wouldn't have automatic gravitas."

"I might be able to settle for 'galactic emperor'. It's a shame the length of a day on one's current planet doesn't affect spell refresh, we could ask Cam for something that spins like a top."

"Would that be comfortable to stand on?"

"I have no idea, but one could teleport there, have a local day, teleport back..."

Snort. "Like one of those fairground rides."

"Shame it doesn't work that way. I didn't quite have the nerve to suggest our planet be made to spin faster."

"That does indeed sound like a bad idea, however tempting."

"Look at us, being all responsible. Do you think you can get an Elspeth with a spell or will that have to wait until more alts have been found, and the whole situation is understood better..."

"I think not understanding alts would interfere with spell composition even if I had enough working memory to hold a few universes in."

"Then we'll wait. No one can whine at us about heirs when we're immortal, now can they."

"No rush."