"Uh, unless you want to wait around to meet my dad, probably not."

"I'm happy to."

"There's that then. So, um... How have you been doing?"

"Okay. Ruling the world suits some of us splendidly, some less."

"Where do you fit on that spectrum?"

"I like it fine."

"I'm glad.

I don't need to ask how Tyelcormo feels but I'm sure he's glad he and therefore Idaia have access to a convenient way of getting her identity back."

"Yeah, I'm glad we were easily accessible once you found out the dreams were real. It's probably ideal timing."

"Oh?"

"I'm not sure what we'd have done if twelve-year-old Idaia found us. Probably not rush her into Tyelcormo's arms, but they'd both be really irritated with us if we didn't -"

"Oh that would have been so very awkward yes. I thought you meant in terms of when we came back, not when we realized it was all real."

"It'd have been lovely if you came back with the first Men, yeah."

"Oh well. We're lucky to be alive at all, I don't want to complain."

"We tried to get resurrection working. Tried for a really long time."

"Well, there's still a lot of other dead people, so once I've gotten--caught up on everything--and trained my magic back up to a reasonable strength we can see if we can get anywhere with the interactions between the systems, if we can get them to interact..."

"Worth a try. It'd surprise me if you could get things that way, but maybe..."

"I'm not saying it'll definitely work or anything, but it's worth trying, and unlike bending the Song of Creation to your will dreamshaping doesn't so far as I know have theoretical limits, so."

"Perhaps in a few thousand years you'll be pulling out miracles to shame Father. Let's hope, at least."

"That would be lovely. The world needs miracles a lot less than it used to--less than Kilaiuossa would have, I'm certain--but I'm sure it can be improved upon."

"And maybe one of the miracles it can pull off is travel back there. Father's tried that, too, intermittently."

"I doubt anything there besides the magic would be recognizable after all this time."

"Yeah. But if there are other dimensions, we ought to find them somehow..."

"Oh, definitely."

"No luck so far but we'll see."

"We'll see. And maybe even if we don't crack extradimensional travel ourselves we'll get yet another convenient visitor or something."