"Mana regeneration even while I'm not resting?"

"Also experimental, we have no fully general predictive models of how wishes interact with other magic systems like that."

"Maybe we should get one."

"Chipping away at it bit by bit."

"I can just wish I was smarter as a backup wish."

"Wouldn't do that if I were you. Depending on how you do it, it's either experimental or giving a device we don't understand well a lot of control over how your mind fundamentally works."

He makes a grumbly sound. "Fine, what can I backup wish?"

"I assume you don't want to be a magic rock like Gem?"

"Might make it harder to be a demon."

"It might, we don't know."

"What're the magic rock powers?"

"Telekinesis - not as good as fairy telekinesis but better than Boots's - transmutation, not angel-quality but you don't need to know as much about what you're doing - some conjuration, it's a major dexterity and strength and speed boost for humans and less but still some for Elves, some weird solid-lightshow effects, lots of freeform little stuff that doesn't come up often enough to be itemized."

"I guess if I can't be a demon I'd rather be a magic rock than not a magic rock but mostly I want to be a demon."

"Unfortunately we don't know very much about how becoming various things interferes with becoming various other things. If anything comes up that seems like I should be the one to wish for it we'll know if the states are compatible, although it might matter which order you do them in."

"Would a magic rock demon's magic rock be indestructible - probably, I guess - can forks make different wishes, the space mes can try all the different things I want to try -"

"I assume they can, yeah, but I don't know that any of them already have done."

"What's the main delay, Gem's time?"

"And general conservatism since you only get one wish and only one chance to decide if you want to be a magic rock and you need a safe backup wish if you want to try anything that hasn't been tested yet."

"Space has lots and lots of people, surely they all aren't conservative."

"Gem kind of is."

"If I were a space me I'd just try dying to see if I turn into a demon."

"For some reason the space yous have not, in fact, done that."

"I should ask them why."

"Well, you'd have to go to Space to do that, Boots still doesn't have the crystal ball protocol up, although she keeps saying any day."

"She's been busy going flying with Rúmil, maybe he's delaying her."