"For that matter, making magic items involves osanwe; maybe your sister's telepathy can do something with that when she wakes up."

"I don't really know enough about  your magic system to guess but she's a really strong telepath."

"At minimum she should be able to make them, then, like we do."

"I wonder if Cerebro would help, if she has an advantage..."

"Sorry, who?"

"Not who, what. It's a machine. A psychic amplifier. Extends range and sheer power tremendously but makes it--dangerous--to interact too closely with specific minds."

"If it's not magic the demons can make you one."

"Oh. I suppose they could. I was thinking I would, Dad had me memorize the plans not long after the school fell..."

Nod.

"He did most of the stuff we could do--Dad had powers just like mine and Papa had powers just like Edie's--but he knew it was best if I could take over, if anything happened--and it did--"

"We'll get them back."

"In a few hundred years."

"They might go by really fast, if the mysterious time-dilation thingy is being nice."

"And if it's being mean?"

"Then I guess they'll feel like forever."

"At least I got one more year than he did."

"Sorry."

"Mhm."

"Is there a good history of your world we should read, or should we hear it from you?"

"I dunno if anyone's been writing history the past eight years--probably at least some shitty propaganda."

"But not really anything we should be reading to get the whole picture."

"It's not completely out of the question but if there's anything like that I never heard about it. That's not strong evidence, though, I had higher priorities."

"I can imagine."

"So I can try to explain or you can try to find one yourself."

"I'd like to hear it from you but not if you don't want to talk about it."