"Are you gonna get a calendar curtain when you can see days into the future?"

"I'm not sure there's that much variety in the world of novelty shower curtains, but maybe?"

"Bet there's places that do custom curtains."

"Hm, maybe. And a calendar one would last me for quite a lot of range extension."

"Mmhm. D'you have a target range you're aiming for?"

"I'll probably move on to something else when I've got twenty-four hours."

"Any plans on what?"

"More optimizations, probably, and maybe more full-featured communicative telepathy if I haven't got that via practice effects alone."

"Oh, cool! I should probably start thinking about how I'll go about stuff after I can fully deage and heal—us."

"What're your favorite candidates?" Bella asks, tugging her pet sofaward for cuddles.

Ooh cuddles.

"Well, probably a way to just stop aging altogether, if that's at all possible, or maybe enhanced resistance to diseases and injury..."

"Should be doable."

"Which would, you know, scale much better than active healing and deaging." Snuggle. "If not yet enough to turn everyone immortal."

Scritches. "Not quite. Bit of a production to assembly-line the entire world population."

"Mmhm... Now what would be really cool would be, like, an engineered virus or something that does it. Non-contagious, voluntary only, but that can scale much better."

"Oooh."

"Even if it doesn't deage anyone, just stopping it gives people much longer to get somewhere they can get that."

"And if it can be reproduced in petri dishes without further mage intervention it scales real well."

"Exactly! I think it shouldn't be impossible, aging is programmed in, if there was a way to make it stop..."

"You'd want to be sure it didn't have weird side effects though..."

"Yeah... And messing with DNA is. Messy. Could have all sorts of long-term problems."

Nod.

Snuggle.

Kiss.

Ooh kiss.

(They're not in Renée's place anymore, aaare theeeeeyyy...)