"Every life matters. Even if you can't save everyone, saving anyone is better than no one."

"I know."

"Sorry, I can get a bit morbid sometimes. Thinking about people you can't save."

"Yeah, me too. And there aren't enough diamonds in the world to bring everybody back."

"Diamonds?"

"...Clerics can resurrect people but it requires a lot of diamonds to be destroyed as part of the spell. Also it doesn't work if you've died of old age."

"Oh, I see. Well, in my world we can't resurrect people at all, so..."

"That's worse. But it's not really common in my world either. If I walk off a warded path and get eaten by a ghoul my parents probably wouldn't be able to scrape together enough to get me back unless they manage to get enough attention to take up a collection."

"If we had resurrection that was just super expensive we probably could have gotten back Dad's parents, Papa's side of the family is actually super rich, it's convenient."

"There are like half a dozen reasons why we probably cannot or should not attempt to leverage this meeting in this bar into a resurrection for your grandparents," sighs the subtle artist. "...What is your name? I'm Bella."

"Oh! I'm Edie, pleased to meet you. Yeah, for one thing I doubt your magic could reach into my universe's afterlife, given how not-magic my universe is and how not-science yours is."

"Yeah. Oh well."

"Even if I could get them back, right now, it would still be terrible. My dad was a teenager when they died, and he's fifty now."

"I can see how that would be awkward. Usually if someone on my world is going to be resurrected at all there's a delay of a few years at most."

"I mean, I think it would still be better than not, but yeah."

"Yeah. Huh, if I stay in here much longer but not long enough to sleep I'm going to be too tired to go to the skirmish game, but I guess if that's the worst consequence of walking into an interplanar bar I got off pretty easy."

"If you want to go, go ahead, Bar can lend me books to pass the time. I wouldn't want to mess up your sleep cycle too much."

"My sleep cycle will be all right for another few hours, tomorrow's a weekend and skirmish usually runs late enough to keep me up anyway."

"All right. Oh, hey, are there any books that it would be difficult to get your hands on in your world? I'm pretty sure Bar just loans out books without charging as long as you don't remove them from the premises.:"

"The library really is very good. I don't currently know of any books I can't get my hands on at home. But if you're all out of things to ask about my world and Bar will do for company I can take a hint."

"I'm not exactly hinting, just trying to make small talk because I am indeed a bit out of things to ask about your world."

Bella slurps up the last dregs of her milkshake. The glass disappears. "I bet you don't have skirmish, with no magic, it would be a little too fatal."

"I don't know what skirmish is, but if you think so you're probably right."

"Simulated warfare. It only took off after the mockbox became common - that's a box you can put a weapon into to get an illusion version of it. Everything's the same except no one dies. I mean, unless a half-ogre punches them in the head, but that isn't very common. The team this year is a little too melee heavy for my tastes, though, I like watching more when it's more battlefield control and arcana."

"Oh, that does sound interesting. It sounds a bit like the Danger Room, come to think of it."