"Huh. But nothing related to what we were talking about?"

Nothing that strikes me as especially salient.

"Okay. Thank you anyway."

You're welcome.

"Well, some mysteries are good to keep us entertained."

"Honestly, if I want entertainment separate from my work I'm more likely to go for something a little more passive. I'm kind of saving all my 'figuring out how things work from far too little information' energy for dreamshaping."

"How's that going?"

"Well, thankfully Bar's booklending capabilities mean I don't have to reinvent the wheel every time I want to learn something I know can be done, but it doesn't help that in terms of stamina I'm still nowhere near where I was when I died."

"That just grows over time?"

"No, with practice."

"Do songs help?"

"It's not just stamina, it's also--strength--they help to a point, and if I could do something but I would have collapsed after they can help me not collapse, but there's only so much they help. They don't make me more able to create more powerful things than they'd make me able to lift heavier objects, does that make sense?"

"I think so, yeah. And therefore they don't much speed up the practice curve either?"

"Not really, no. On the bright side, Idaia and I got our memories back in dreams, and to a greater level of fidelity than we had when we died."

"Oooh, useful. - there's got to be some way of having specific dreams on purpose -"

"Hypnotism, maybe?"

"You should look into options for that before we open the door to Ozymandias again -"

"Yeah, that's a good idea. Although how we'd find a hypnotherapist on such short notice I'm really not sure."

"At least some books. Or there might be better solutions."

"Maybe Genetically Psychic Idaia can do something."

"Oh, I bet it'd mean a lot to her if you ask."

"Yeah, although I should probably give her at least a little more time to decompress first."

"Sounds good."

"It's a plan, then.

It's hard to remember sometimes that you're not him."

"I'm not really sure how alts work but it sounds like I might be pretty much him when you two met."