"Makes sense. In that case, we should meet up somewhere but it doesn't matter as much where, as long as it has privacy."

"I don't actually live that close to Seattle. I live in Forks, it's on the west coast of the state."

"Wow, that is a hike. Maybe we can get some research done over email."

"Yeah, that seems likely to work best. I come here now and then but usually only when I can carpool with a friend."

"I live within bus distance, it's very convenient. Can you think of anything else best discussed here and now?"

"No, I don't think so, email works fine."

"In that case I think I'll finish my lunch now and email you experimental plans later. It's been awesome meeting you!"

"You too!"

Om nom slightly cold burger and fries.

When she gets home, she looks over her list of irons in the fire and checks whether Whisker Press has a website.

It has a critterlocked website, yep.

Does their site have anything on publishing and distributing periodicals?

It has a phone number if you want to submit something for publication!

Okay, she'll call the number and ask how submitting things for publication works and what they do with the thing once they've printed it (i.e. do they sell it directly to bookstores or just send you a bunch of copies?).

(The phone is critterlocked too; they pretend to be a dentist's office till she indicates she knows better.)

"We have a self-publication option where we just send you the books, but we also have deals with a number of bookstores and libraries and can sell to them directly."

"Thanks. And what's your pricing scheme?"

He lists figures. The minimum print run is perhaps surprisingly pricey but she can afford it, selling invisibility doodads.

She writes that down, thanks them, hangs up, and checks on her invisibility doodad business. Getting finished pieces mailed to Seattle has added a couple days to her shipping time, but she hadn't been offering any speedy shipping guarantees.

Nobody's complained yet!

As long as the orders keep rolling in, she'll keep filling them. Next stop: healing artifact.

The incantation for the direct healing spell was [a bunch of French], translating to "Heal this [entity's] injury, restore it to perfect health as though it was never harmed." The artifact version can be restricted to humans, but should drop the word "injury" in the hope that it will also work on illnesses, allergy attacks, etc. She emails Bella the publisher's info and what she has on healing so far, including a tweaked incantation and  some notes on where the translation into English is inexact, then sits and takes some notes on types of medical issue someone could have.

That's pretty expensive for the publishing, but maybe we could sell enough subscriptions in advance to break even if we advertised hard enough.

Yeah. I've got some money saved up from selling rings you can use to turn invisible, but I'd rather not run this journal at a loss if it's going to be sustainable.

Got any suggestions/cautions for the healing artifact before I try making one? I was thinking use the same diagram to start out and just replace the incantation with the new one.

You know more about artifacts than I do. If that worked before I wouldn't know what to advise you to change.

What are you charging for rings?

Three grand apiece. They're popular with monsters for sneaking out of Avalons.

She gets a pebble and an earthworm from outside, and sets the pebble on a fresh healing diagram over which she says the worm version of her new incantation. It translates to "Make this rock heal any earthworm it touches, restoring that earthworm to full health as though it was never unwell." (The human version will be voice-activated, but this is a proof of concept that doesn't require specifying multiple targets.)

This works about as well as the healing spell alone on worms.

Now for the human version, on another rock. "Make this rock heal its holder when its holder says 'heal', restoring that person to full health as though that person was never unwell." If the spell appears to go off, she'll test it with a minor self-injury again.