"I'm thinking it might be a high leverage use of my time to improve on the mail relays, because wizardry can do interdimensional communication. It'll take some doing but it shouldn't require people hopping around all the time as much."

"Marvelous!"

"We will also probably be hopping around giving wizarding lessons at some point, it seems one of the things that works even non-locally."

"I'm excited. More magic systems to smash into each other and see what pops out."

"Might just invite everyone over to Warp for that."

"Throw a party! Alt parties are the best parties."

"A party for everyone learning their first cantrips! Sounds fun!"

"Wizardry lecture, snacks to follow, packets of scrolls as goodie bags."

"It'll be awesome."

"How does spellbinding work? Why's the planet called Hex? Are you the Queen? What's my dad, then?"

"Spellbinding only works for people who are born here; we're born with insubstantial animal companions nobody but us can see and if we turn them into solid animals we can learn spells. Mine's a cat but he's very rude and doesn't like hardly anybody. The planet's called Hex because that's what it is if you use all six of your spells for the day in one go to cast something big. I'm afraid your father's alt here passed away a few years ago." Since I'm only married for convenience it might not be too weird? I literally did marry him so that he could be king and I could be queen and we're just best friends.

Maybe. Try it, I guess, if evasion gets hard.

"Oh. And my mom?"

"She died before I was even born, I never had the chance to meet her."

"Is there a way to fix it yet?"

"No. We're working on it, but it might need to wait until Loki's done with her spell."

"When will that be?"

"Her spells take decades, and she's got a lot of other things to do, too. So probably a long time. We might get there first, but some things are too big for hexes, we don't know how to get individual people more than six spells a day yet, and while we can pool spells between casters now, they go up exponentially in how many slots they take up and so nothing we can only do that way scales very well."

"So maybe I'll fix it first. Okay."

"Maybe! That'd be great."

"Are there mes and my kids here too? I want to meet them!"

"There is a you, who is probably locked away in his office as usual doing research, and there are all his kids, who are around but were not particularly expecting you."

"I still want to meet them! I can tell them about Materia and our Arda and Warp!"

"Well, we could go in the palace and see who we run into."

"Okay."